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ibrazeous t1_ja30tb0 wrote

Guess prepare for them to be even worse now as QC still has to ramp up in India. Ballsy move to put their most premium phoned in a new untested location, which as apple has seen is still far quality wise from traditional markets; should have probably gambled with the A series phones

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Mahameghabahana OP t1_ja5vvru wrote

There already skilled labour in Samsung manufacturing plants in india as Samsung have been manufacturing phones in india for quite a year. You can't make factories in an new country and expect the same production rate or quality as that new country would lack skilled labour for that problem, which was the case with apple but not with Samsung. It doesn't mean we indian are not normal human or are intelligent people as many in this sub previously implied, the situation would be same in anyother countries apart from china and maybe Vietnam including manufacturing in USA. Having a skilled labour is important.

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ibrazeous t1_ja7k9f8 wrote

Not Dissing India in any way, just talking purely from a supply chain perspective. Samsung has been making mostly ultra cheap phones and M series in India, so a bit ballsy to move S and the folds there where the volume and quality requirements are extremely high. These were usually made in Vietnam and not china anyways, so interesting to see this play out and even have comparisons of the India made vs Vietnam made

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ShinyHappyAardvark t1_ja5hfuz wrote

I’m not buying any electronics that are made in India.

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daddy_OwO t1_ja5uem9 wrote

I’d only buy apple since they are keeping the QC at the same level

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Defoler t1_ja75ejb wrote

Problem is that apple might increase price if they are stuck with the same terrible QC that the indian manufacture is giving them.

Apple's india manufactured hardware failed apple's own QC at about 50% (compared to under 1% from china).

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soylentgreenisppls t1_ja6jowu wrote

Why

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ChasingDucks t1_ja6u0je wrote

I think there's a stigma when production shifts to a new country. I remember comments about Japanese stuff being terrible and how if you want quality you should buy stuff made in the USA. Once things started getting shifted to China, then it's how everything made in China is terrible and you should buy stuff made in Japan only!

The first few generations of Korean cars had the same stigma, at least for the cheapest stuff.

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soylentgreenisppls t1_ja6velp wrote

While I don’t disagree with your history of the stigmatization of the producing countries, I feel that you kinda point out that previously stigmatized production countries rose above those stigmas. Why not India?

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Background_Worry6546 t1_ja6yjdn wrote

I feel it'll take time. A lot of young people don't know about the past Japanese products' bad reputation. Even China hasn't risen above the stigmas yet.

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MightyMoonwalker t1_ja73mhz wrote

They might, but their manufacturing now has huhe defect rates. Its not a false perspective.

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