03-25-2021, 05:41 AM
Moving production outside of China would end Pine64 as a company pretty quickly.
Production costs would go up, supply chain exponentially more difficult and almost impossible to realise, automation more difficult. Pine64 would have to restrict what it produced to a tiny number of products that would all be a magnitude or two more expensive to produce than they are now losing innovative versatility in the process. Eventually, competition with China would kill production from any Pine64 manufacturing setup based outside China and this is the reality.
Manufacturing outside of China is in decline for the same reasons as it is not as effective on multiple levels as manufacturing within China.
Raspberry Pi production in the UK is an exception but natural as it was designed there and may not have happened without help from Sony. Note the foundation still has production in China also in Japan, not just in Wales. No they would not agree to build Pine64 products because they are competitors.
Production costs would go up, supply chain exponentially more difficult and almost impossible to realise, automation more difficult. Pine64 would have to restrict what it produced to a tiny number of products that would all be a magnitude or two more expensive to produce than they are now losing innovative versatility in the process. Eventually, competition with China would kill production from any Pine64 manufacturing setup based outside China and this is the reality.
Manufacturing outside of China is in decline for the same reasons as it is not as effective on multiple levels as manufacturing within China.
Raspberry Pi production in the UK is an exception but natural as it was designed there and may not have happened without help from Sony. Note the foundation still has production in China also in Japan, not just in Wales. No they would not agree to build Pine64 products because they are competitors.