Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he recently held talks with some partners who supply him with components and announced that he intends to make his own negotiations for the purchase of some less essential components for the manufacture of Macs. More precisely, we are talking about screws, less important metal components, plastic components used for assembly, and other such components that, apparently, are too expensive for Apple.
Apple wants to control much more carefully what kind of components are bought for its products, and wants to substantially reduce the acquisition costs, affecting the profit of its partners, but increasing its own. Basically, the companies that supply processors, glass panels, batteries, elements for the case, etc., will be affected by this change of the Apple company, but it was expected that something like this would happen.
Apple wants to INCREASE the profit made for the sale of Macs
Until now, those who assemble Apple products bought the components themselves and sent the invoices to the Apple company, adding between 10% and 15% of the price of the components for this service. Considering that some have become too greedy, those from Apple want to make savings, and they are going to be serious since the costs of purchasing some components can decrease by up to 15%, or more, and to millions and millions of components, large sums are added.
"Apple is reportedly to tighten its grip on the supply chains of new MacBook models through direct pricing negotiations with third-party suppliers of non-key parts such as screws, metallic parts and plastics parts needed for the production of key components by contracted suppliers, a move seen to significantly squeeze profit margins of contracted supply partners."
The information comes in the context in which Apple has opened about 3 lawsuits because it used bad quality keyboards in MacBook Pros, excessively expensive laptops, which apparently also have bad quality materials. The fact that Apple wants to make even more profit from the use of bad materials in "premium" products is just something normal for the American company, so anyone who is surprised by this should look very carefully at how Apple mainly works for profit, and subsidiarily to make products that are really of quality.
