Why Tim Cook’s China-Centric Supply Chain Faces Its First Test Under John Ternus
Explore how <strong style="color:#c0392b">Apple</strong>'s China-centric supply chain faces a historic turning point under <strong style="color:#c0392b">John Ternus</strong> and physical AI. History is a continuous, grand pendulum swing, always searching for a new equilibrium on the opposite side of extremes. When the absolute values that once drove a dazzling era of prosperity suddenly transform into the heaviest shackles of the next, we intuitively sense that the paradigm of civilization is shifting. Core Insights 1. The Paradox of Optimization: The Achilles' Heel of Spiderweb-Like Supply Chains The concepts of economies of scale and Just-In-Time (JIT) production systems in economics have been the golden rules worshipped by global capitalism for decades. The ability to produce nothing in-house while coordinating the capabilities of others as cheaply and swiftly as possible—namely, the maximization of thorough division of labor ...