[Wayne07]

You are right that Apple outsources most manufacturing (though they do own and operate a factory in Ireland the produces iMacs).

Some corrections though. that building might look small, but you are underestimating the scale. It is 2.8 million square feet, 4 stories, and they plan to have 12-13,000 employees on site. It will mostly be technology and engineers. They'll do all the software engineering, hardware engineering, data, mapping, etc. They have about 20,000 tech employees at sites around Cupertino and Sunnyvale now - that excludes Store and support types.

[Swordmaker]

You are right that Apple outsources most manufacturing (though they do own and operate a factory in Ireland the produces iMacs).

Apple also builds iMacs a lot closer than that, in Elk Grove, California, and all Mac Pros are manufactured in Austin, Texas. And DennisW is lying again about Apple's R&D and engineering, which he claims is done in Asia. No, it's not. It's done in California.