Apple Manufacturing In USA

Macs are made in USA? They are going to be very expensive.
 
metalangel said:
As opposed to how much they cost already? :p
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The cost isn't concern, but the education is most concern for Apple.
Apple had 700,000 factory workers employed in China, [Jobs] said, and that was because it needed 30,000 engineers on-site to support those workers. "You can't find that many in America to hire," he said. These factory engineers did not have to be PhDs or geniuses; they simply needed to have basic engineering skills for manufacturing. Tech schools, community colleges, or trade schools could train them. "If you could educate these engineers," he said, "we could move more manufacturing plants here." (Steve Jobs, p. 546).
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Not true at all. That is a straight-up lie. Remember, electronics jobs were being exported to the far east in the 70s because of money and pollution concerns. It wasn't because we were cranking out less and less engineers.
 
deafdrummer said:
Not true at all. That is a straight-up lie. Remember, electronics jobs were being exported to the far east in the 70s because of money and pollution concerns. It wasn't because we were cranking out less and less engineers.
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Not true for IT companies, especially Apple.

You obviously mention about steel, iron, textile, etc, but the tech companies are different side.
 
From article.

Williams also asked Cook how bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. from China would affect the price tags attached to devices like Macs, iPhones and iPads. "Honestly," Cook said to Williams, "It's not so much about price, it's about the skills, et cetera. Over time, there are skills that are associated with manufacturing that have left the U.S. Not necessarily people, but the education system stopped producing them."
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Watch Brian Williams full interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook tonight 10pm/9c on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.
 
It is a public relations move. When the sweatshop workers in china and asia start killing themselves again cuz of the pressure to produce then apple. Can point at the manufacturing being done on usa soil. That way they can say they are trying to help ease the burden of asian sweatshop workers
 
More like they're hire people to control & monitor the robot to building the computer. When it goes wrong, fix the robot. Then it's alive! ARRGGGHHH!!!
 
PowerON said:
More like they're hire people to control & monitor the robot to building the computer. When it goes wrong, fix the robot. Then it's alive! ARRGGGHHH!!!
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They hire robots. :giggle:
 
In USA, Union workers will hurt Tim Cook for more raise salary or on strike. ha
 
Evo Dragon said:
In USA, Union workers will hurt Tim Cook for more raise salary or on strike. ha
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I doubt that Apple factories will be unionized like majority of IT companies are not unionized.
 
GuySmoke420 said:
Made in china alway suck, reason things easy broke quicky and crappy.
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"Alway" Disagreed with you. I have a many tools, technology, parts, etc and they made in China, I have no problem with them. It's about DESIGN, not made. Like China designed it then made, yes it's suck mostly of them. USA designed then send blueprint to china for made then no problem so much.

Like most PC laptop are crap and Macbook are great life but both made in China. How? Apple's design did better than most PC manufacturers. That's why I built a PC since I was 14 years old and no problem with them unlike Gateway, HP, Dell, blah blah.

I seen almost 90% of motherboard made in China and 10% made in Japan. Nothing news.
 
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