Strangely enough, I don't recall any companies advertising to consumers that they outsourced.

I’ve seen a few brands here and there boasting of the quality of the “select Asian suppliers” they moved their manufacturing to. It’s a clever way to preempt criticism that the brand is now no different from any of the competing brands that moved to China or Vietnam.

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dbalatero 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Is this in things like the clothing industry, where there exists a conversation around fast/cheap/outsourced fashion and has consumer pushback built in? If so, it makes sense they would get ahead of that. I'm not sure all industries bother to make that point/consumers really care.

	▲	TFNA 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t know about clothing, but I’ve seen this a lot in the bicycle industry and in the outdoor equipment industry.

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fsloth 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I guess they can say "Made in China, designed by Apple in California" in the packaging but at least they still take pride in the design. With AI it sounds you are disavowing also the authorship of the design.