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Just noting.

The article says "may".

My question is, what in the world has taken Apple so long?

Just do it.

1 posted on 11/17/2016 5:11:31 PM PST by cba123
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Will it have the suicide nets outside of windows also?


2 posted on 11/17/2016 5:13:09 PM PST by BipolarBob (Hillary "Elect me and every Tuesday will be Soylent Green day!".)
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Maybe we’ll have steel mills open up in Pennsylvania again. Bought black pipe and fittings the other day for a water tank and pump project, and they all said CHINA.


3 posted on 11/17/2016 5:14:01 PM PST by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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It wasn't that many years ago that Apple manufactured most of their laptops at a plant in Colorado Springs. When profit margins are in the several hundred percent range, as they are for Apple, it is hard to argue that it is economically infeasible to manufacture in the U.S.

Of course, not every company is Apple, but if we can cut onerous regulations and create a more favorable tax structure I don't see why we can't lure back a significant portion of our lost manufacturing base. Especially if we make it more expensive to access our coveted consumer market if companies decide to keep their manufacturing offshore.

Carrot and stick.

4 posted on 11/17/2016 5:23:45 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Think they may have overheard Trump tell Ford that he was going to slap a 35% import tax on those small autos that they were going to build in Meh-e-coh when they moved the plant there.


5 posted on 11/17/2016 5:24:09 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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I know this is impossible because Free Trade Freepers have told me this would be a disaster for the consumer because each iPhone made in the USA would retail for $50,000.00 instead of $500.00. /sarc


6 posted on 11/17/2016 5:27:19 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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It’ll take tax changes here in the U.S. for them to be able to afford to make them here. They’d need to leave California also and go somewhere like Florida or Tennessee.


8 posted on 11/17/2016 5:40:29 PM PST by rhett october
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Second time I’ve seen the story (not complaining) and wonder if it has any bearing on China’s guy threatening to stomp his foot and not supply us with our precious phones....if China (or any other country) can manufacture something, so can America.


12 posted on 11/18/2016 3:06:46 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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