You’re complaining out of ignorance, as most people who rail at Apple do.
Apple is the only major manufacturer and assembler of computers who does so in the United States. The Apple Mac Pro is manufactured at a factory in Austin, Texas, with more than 90% of its components made in the US, which is a requirement to use "Manufactered in the USA" engraved on its case, which it does. Apple assembles Apple iMacs in Elk Grove, California, ten miles south of Sacramento. They also assemble iMacs in Ireland.
Apple is building a $3 Billion factory in Wisconsin in partnership with FoxConn, but what is going to be made there is still up in the air.
Apple has built six multi-Billion dollar server farms in the United States in the past five years. . . and is building more, and expanding the six it already has. Apple just completed building a $5 Billion headquarters building in Cupertino and recently broke ground on Campus 3, also in Cupertino, for additional research and development space, as well as keeping their original headquarters at 1 infinite loop.
Designed in America? What in the world does that even mean?
It means exactly that. Apple designs everything about its products they can. They design their processors and the GPUs in their mobile devices by hand, the OLED used in the iPhone X may be being made by Samsung, but it was designed by Apple engineers in Cupertino, Ca. All of the operating system was designed and programmed by Apple in the USA. Apple even design the CNC machine tools its subcontractors will use on their assembly lines to make Apple’s devices.
Android phones are essentially made to reference designs with off the shelf components supplied by the lowest bidder.
As for Trump, Apple was talking with Trump about the Wisconsin expansion in early June even before he sewed up the Republican Presidential nomination. . . just as Trump was already talking to Carrier and Ford.
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