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1 posted on 07/03/2010 9:43:37 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I won’t buy Apple products.


2 posted on 07/03/2010 9:46:17 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Your posting history tells me you’re just stirring the pot.


3 posted on 07/03/2010 9:47:11 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The box they pack them in, but then the packing is probably done by illegals.


4 posted on 07/03/2010 9:48:07 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Most of all the software is done in the U.S.. Supposedly most of the circuit design was done here but not as much as before. Some ICs may be made in America. Some of the IC fabrication factory/foundry equipment is still made in America.

A lot was all in Calif but it keeps being driven out. Semiconductor manufacturing “ain’t” as clean as people think.


5 posted on 07/03/2010 9:49:08 PM PDT by Frantzie (Democrats = Party of I*lam)
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Very few things are manufactured here. That isn’t Apple’s fault. It’s our government’s fault. And I am NO Apple fanboy for sure.


7 posted on 07/03/2010 9:52:51 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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As long as the product performs as advertised ... who cares? We live in a Global economy ... cars with foreign names, and foreign sponsors are made in the US. Products like batteries are made in China and other countries and are sold in the US and nobody cares.

I don’t care were a product is produced, as long as it works and sells at a reasonable price.


9 posted on 07/03/2010 9:54:04 PM PDT by doc1019 (Rush, Beck and others are giving us the dots; it is up to us to connect them.)
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Yes it is. Foxconn (Taiwanese company with all factories in Guangzhou, China) and their supply chain in China provide all the parts.

Of course, they’re still a bit-player in the phone market so they don’t have the big, established manufacturing base of the bigger players.


10 posted on 07/03/2010 9:54:18 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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I think the PR is all produced stateside.


11 posted on 07/03/2010 9:55:25 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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OK so America is agog. Agog I say! At the amazing new American technological marvel, the Apple iPhone 4.

I couldn't care less about it.

13 posted on 07/03/2010 9:58:12 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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But Apple products are “Designed By Apple in Cupertino”....lol


15 posted on 07/03/2010 10:06:10 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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Apple is an American Company with products (like many other companies) are made overseas for manufacturing costs. Microsoft does the SAME thing.


18 posted on 07/03/2010 10:09:56 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

A better question is, Is the United States (since Nov 2008) an American country?


19 posted on 07/03/2010 10:10:58 PM PDT by cynwoody
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Late to the party? This is common knowledge.


25 posted on 07/03/2010 10:26:58 PM PDT by mnehring
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It pays taxes based on being here.


26 posted on 07/03/2010 10:32:13 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Isn't enough always enough?)
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Amid rampant demand for iPads and iPhones, Foxconn has cracked down on employee freedoms and forced employees to work longer hours, often times unpaid. Conditions at the Apple plant are reportedly far worse than the working conditions at other Foxconn plants used by Dell, HP, and others.
31 posted on 07/03/2010 11:05:47 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Eccl. 10:18 -)
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Apple is no different from any other company. Nobody actually makes things in America anymore, ESPECIALLY electronics. Even Intel is slowly building more production capacity outside of the US.

Apple has “designed in California” on their products, but that means squat to me.


33 posted on 07/03/2010 11:13:38 PM PDT by DesScorp
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Well, when Agog meets Gog you know the End Times are nigh!

So you’ll need some Grog!

Ed


35 posted on 07/03/2010 11:57:47 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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Does it matter any more? The Boeing 777 and 787 are made up of parts from all over the world. Its cheaper to build things overseas. Blame the unions. Ironically, lots of Airbus parts are made in the USA


41 posted on 07/04/2010 1:26:18 AM PDT by Sto Zvirat
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I think this is a FUD Vanity post... asking if Apple is an American Company—PING!

PLEASE NOTE, if you post a thread on APPLE, iPHONES, iPAD, or Macs, and wish to notify the Apple/Mac,iPhone,iPad list, please have the courtesy to Ping me, so that I may ping the list. Certain anti-Apple persons, notably, for-q-clinton, PugetSoundSoldier, and a few others are deliberately NOT pinging me to their negative, anti-Apple threads... for reasons of their own.


Apple Inc. Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

Please don't feed the Anti-Apple Trolls™

43 posted on 07/04/2010 2:53:45 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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Good for Apple. Doing otherwise would be a waste of capital which would have been better spent growing the economy somewhere else. Read up on comparative advantage.


55 posted on 07/04/2010 6:47:34 AM PDT by MattAMiller
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