“I am also a classically educated economist. I know what I’m talking about and it’s clear you don’t.” Ludwig von Swordmaker
Von Swordmaker said it, I believe it, that settles it!
Dr von Swordmaker insisted that Apple didn’t build factories in China (they did) and that they didn’t build those factories to avoid over-regulation in the United States (they did). Saint Steven of Cupertino told President Barack Obama “...how easy it was to build a factory in China, and said that it was almost impossible to do so these days in America, largely because of regulations and unnecessary costs.” Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Chapter Forty-One, Round Three, The Twilight Struggle, President Obama
Steve Jobs, and everyone else in America, knew why Apple built factories in China. Everyone, that is, except world-renowned economist Ludwig von Swordmaker.
“In most cases, the plants exceeded EPA standards. If Apple moved to avoid standards, why require more, when it is NOT required at the new location?” Ludwig von Swordmaker from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3134377/posts?page=191#191
So Apple didn’t build factories in China, but the factories that they didn’t build were built to specs exceeding the specs in America that Saint Steven claimed were too restrictive and costly.
You can’t make this stuff up! It’s almost as if Ludwig von Swordmaker is a Colbertesque caricature who works for Markos to make conservative Apple users look like morons who would mindlessly and uncritically propagate Apple mythology.
Apple Lexicon
Chinese Factories: Naturally occurring structures spontaneously formed in Chinese cities and discovered by Apple in the 1990’s which they repurposed to accommodate the manufacture of electronic devices.
from The Apple Lexicon (™) Interpreting Apple Theology Since 1994
Apple built factories in China? Seriously? Hmmm... and al along, I just thought it was Foxconn and the other long-standing Chinese-owned factories that have expanded many times as they have taken on the contracts for pretty much EVERY major computer maker in the world...
Seriously - which factories did Apple build?
The Facts are not hard to chase down - and if you would take a couple of seconds to simply search for it, you would find it. Apple, just like so many other "manufacturers" contract with companies in China to produce most of their goods. The difference with Apple (again - VERY easy to track this down) is that they are one of, if not THE ONLY company that sets their standards way above eery other maker in regards to worker conditions, worker pay, and quality expectations. It is all in the Apple contracts.
you can't make this stuff up..."
You just did... pulled it out of your self righteous, pompous A$$ right along with the rest of your trolling garbage.
OH - and were you aware that the latest Mac Pro Towers are made in the USA?