Apple expected to further diversify MacBook production within China

racerhomie3 said:
Why is Apple not looking towards Indonesia,Vietnam,India,Bangladesh etc. These are growing nations that are hungry for manufacturing and have huge number of customers.

India is not favored due to slow processes, heavy regulations, and poor infrastructure. Indians have already rioted many times which makes businesses not trust them to be dependable. 

In USA, we have many regulations dictating what businesses can do and cannot do. It's usually due to environmental protections and private ownership rights. Our infrastructure is weakening as well. There are a lot of solutions for improving the whole infrastructure like building dedicated highways for autonomous vehicles (which means less traffic and safer than human-driven roads) and high speed rails but we're stuck with politicians and voters who don't really grasp the concept of how important those things are. We need to break away from our dependence on "driving" as a symbol of independence or wealth and focus on providing Americans the resilient infrastructure they need. 

China delivers as promised. China is ruthless but efficient at making sure it gets done. Also, China has billions of people working. In USA, we have way too many people not working and we just don't have enough manpower to scale up to demands. China has superior infrastructure and has high speed rails to connect to all major cities. China is already rolling out autonomous vehicles. 

That's basically the reason why we don't move to other nations - they're not worth the cost or the time when China can do it much faster and scale up nicely for less. Even in USA, we are not meeting the deadlines for factories and costing us a lot more money than forecasted. What took China only a few months to build would take at least two years in USA due to lack of manpower and heavy regulations here. 

UPDATE: 

Relevant article relating to India:

https://asiatimes.com/2020/11/why-manufacturers-are-not-rushing-from-china-to-india/