Posted on 02/25/2014 8:07:33 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
keep dreaming
There’s also the new sapphire glass facility in either AZ or NV, I forget which. It’s not Apple per se, but a partnership with the manufacturer to build the plant for Apple’s production.
You are a joke. You know so little. ANY company trying to manufacture under current rules in the US struggles. Apple made the move to offshore at the same time that all computer and ic companies did.
Blame California and the feds but not the common sense of a business man.
American jobs will NEVER come back as long as the EPA exists and OSHA helps them out. The government FORCED this outsourcing
It’s Arizona. See: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/25/apple-gt-revenue-growth/
OOooooo boy. A rumor generated a year later just as the fourth quarter closes. Hmmmmm. Since this supposed meeting happened a year ago and NOTHING has moved I would suggest that this is right in their with Jobs resurrection
Bring back jobs to America.
America.
America (badly) needs import tariffs.
Significant import tariffs.
That would also help our trade deficit. Just saying.
Stop abandoning our own nation.
Bring back American manufacturing.
Now.
You apparently are not aware of Apple. While there are companies that ujse a lot of H1B visa workers Apple is not one of them (though they do use some).
Try Google or Sandisc or Ebay....they are notorious
You are delusional
February 18, 2014, 2:10 p.m.
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Just saying.
This is true.
There are lots of H1b visa’s working in Silicon Valley.
Be aware that 100% of the processors in Apple’s computer line are made in the USA.
OR and AZ mostly.
The die are packaged and tested in Penang but designed and built in the USA.
The problem, of course, is that it would be extraordinarily difficult to bring back the manufacturing jobs. Estimates vary between sources, but the overall consensus is that Foxconn workers who assemble Apple products in China make around $1.50 to $3.00/hour. And, even more importantly, the workers live in conditions that American workers would never consider -- e.g., on-site, company-owned dorimtories, which allows the company tremendous flexibility to get workers on and off the line as needed. How can you replicate that here?
Import tariffs may increase domestic manufacturing (or, y’know, it may not - the ensuing trade war could make it LESS attractive to manufacture products here), but would also lead to drastic price increases.
Once China pilfers the remaining part of America’s manufacturing base, which they haven’t already taken, prices will go up in America anyway.
Might as well take the initiative ourselves.
Just saying. America needs jobs. Right here. America needs jobs, and needs to stop importing everything.
China is no longer a third-world power. China now exports more than America exports.
Bring back jobs to America.
Why the quotes around the word rumor? The LA Times wasn’t so coy. Their reporting was straigtforward.
Just because the work rumor, was used also in the sentence above that.
No particular reason. It probably wasn’t needed, but I thought it seemed right in the spot.
I am still strongly against this. Bring back jobs to America.
Apple isn’t bringing American jobs home right now.
No American manufacturer is bringing American jobs home right now, for that matter.
We need to change the way we do things.
America needs jobs, right here.
What is Apple bringing to the party when it comes to running a battery company? Sure, they are a customer, but they have no particular expertise in what is a pretty low-tech industry.
My guess is Apple figures it can be expert in power management. The difference between Toyota’s very reliable hybrid car batteries and Honda’s is that Toyota sold the batteries... but not the software.
But I more suspect that Apple is saying, “if we build enormous lithium-battery factories now, we can provide a stable revenue source for those factories in the near term, and an expanding revenue stream for them in the long term.”
Ludicrous analysis if it doesn’t bother to go into waste disposal costs.
Those generally exceed labor costs considerably.
Find a more thorough auditor.
The jobs are not coming back.
Tesla is the one bright spot in all this greenie bs.
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