They made significant changes to the manufacturing in the 80s during the Reagan Era and they started outsourcing much of the critical small parts manufacturing to southeast Asia, included more cheaper and poor quality materials, did away with unionized labour, integrated more low cost migrant labour and the quality of the final products have degraded since then.
Note from Salesforce team : When they went cheap on the cpu and the optic sensors we now have a problem with production. To many finished units showing up needing extra optical additions, and a large number of units with autism.
They made significant changes to the manufacturing in the 80s during the Reagan Era and they started outsourcing much of the critical small parts manufacturing to southeast Asia, included more cheaper and poor quality materials, did away with unionized labour, integrated more low cost migrant labour and the quality of the final products have degraded since then.
Note from Salesforce team : When they went cheap on the cpu and the optic sensors we now have a problem with production. To many finished units showing up needing extra optical additions, and a large number of units with autism.