Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this

shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said. In a recent analysis the company did to explore the feasibility of moving production to the United States, the company determined that it couldn’t find people with those skills in the United States, said two people familiar with the analysis who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

nytimes.com/…/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html

They’re supposedly paraphrasing supply chain experts but they could definitely paraphrase better. It reads like a Reddit comment.

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