Apple is delegating greater responsibility for controlling its hardware manufacturing operations to Chinese engineers. Apple used to send US-based engineers to China to monitor work before the pandemic, but the article claims that due to tighter border restrictions caused by COVID-19, the business now relies more on Chinese engineers. Apple’s US-based engineers, on the other hand, are still remotely participating in abroad development efforts: The iPhone maker has also implemented certain technologies, including live-streaming, that allows employees at its Cupertino, Calif. headquarters to remotely monitor what’s going on on factory floors in China. Apple has utilized iPads to communicate and...