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Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China (LAST major product assembled in America)
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 28, 2019 9:32 am ET | By Tripp Mickle and Yoko Kubota

Posted on 06/28/2019 7:35:37 PM PDT by cba123

Apple Inc. AAPL -0.91% is manufacturing its new Mac Pro computer in China, according to people familiar with its plans, shifting abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the U.S. as trade tensions escalate between the Trump administration and Beijing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; china; macpro
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Not good, Apple.

Not good, at all.

1 posted on 06/28/2019 7:35:37 PM PDT by cba123
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-moves-mac-pro-production-to-china-11561728769


2 posted on 06/28/2019 7:36:27 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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The US made design never had a chance. The graphics were really old on release, and this premium model did not get significant updates. Worse, no internal expansion options.


3 posted on 06/28/2019 7:39:22 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: cba123

It’s likely because that’s the only way they can get the costs down enough for people to buy it.


4 posted on 06/28/2019 7:43:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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I’ll put money down that China made Timmah an under the table offer he couldn’t refuse.


5 posted on 06/28/2019 7:47:08 PM PDT by Skywise
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I think only older declining models will remain or go to Chinese production facilities.

Apple’s biggest supplier, Foxconn, is already ramping up capacity in India and elsewhere for the newer products. Other Apple suppliers are expanding outside of China as well.


6 posted on 06/28/2019 7:53:31 PM PDT by BeauBo
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It costs upwards of $6000... $5000 plus tax, shipping, and not including any options someone wants to add.


7 posted on 06/28/2019 7:55:59 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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Is this related to Apple's product design chief leaving after 20 years?

"The product's gonna look like crap anyway, might as well make it run like crap too. Hell, make it as unreliable as crap and go for the trifecta."

"But keep the prices UP, because REASONS!"

8 posted on 06/28/2019 8:09:26 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Wtf?


9 posted on 06/28/2019 8:11:35 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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Yea, 8 expansion slots and the most powerful graphics card made...OK


10 posted on 06/28/2019 8:11:41 PM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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What does Apple NOT understand about having their stuff stolen are these companies really this STUPID!!!


11 posted on 06/28/2019 8:19:32 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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Of course, you are right! It has absolutely nothing to do with labor costs....absolutely nothing.


12 posted on 06/28/2019 8:19:37 PM PDT by Dave W
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China has stolen what they need from Apple at this point...I wouldn’t worry too much more about it.


13 posted on 06/28/2019 8:20:30 PM PDT by Dave W
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I think this probably had EVERYTHING to do with their designer leaving after 20 years, WHY on earth would he want his creativity and designs stolen and produced cheaper by the Chinese!!!


14 posted on 06/28/2019 8:22:46 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: BeauBo
I think only older declining models will remain or go to Chinese production facilities.

The one that's going to be made in Red China is going to be the new version, which solves most of the problems of the existing model. This is going to be a top of the line $25-$40,000 workstation.
15 posted on 06/28/2019 8:24:38 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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makes a person very very prone to stop buying Apples


16 posted on 06/28/2019 8:29:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Ooo - you so smart - you make funny.

Think Mcfly - if it had anything to do with labor costs they would’ve already moved the factory.

They’re not going to produce enough Mac pros to make labor costs that different (especially in light of the costs of having to build out a new factory plus the potential tariff costs of a China trade war)

This was a quid-pro-quo deal for China favors and to allow the iPhone to remain selling in China and to give the finger to Trump. But mostly the former.


17 posted on 06/28/2019 8:46:25 PM PDT by Skywise
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the amazing thing is that Apple management would say “Screw USA!” like this,
when Apple already makes MOST of its products in foreign countries, especially Communist China

you’d think that maybe the management would be aware of just how upset most Americans are with this mass-scale exporting of jobs

and that they’d make a few of their products in USA, at least a few anyways


18 posted on 06/28/2019 8:55:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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you’d think that maybe the management would be aware of just how upset most Americans are with this mass-scale exporting of jobs

How much profit does that consideration add to their bottom line?

Management at Apple is about making money for shareholders.

19 posted on 06/28/2019 9:03:44 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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any experienced manager will know to go beyond the
first maths
(yes, cheap Chinese “slave labor” will undoubtedly save Apple some production cost)

and look at... the impact on the company’s public image, political safety, governmental relations, and marketing/customer attitudes.

any one of these costs to the company will do it more harm in the long run that the production savings could possibly help it in the short term

any one of them.
also, the Opportunity Costs (like, Apple slaps American consumers in the face.... instead of....building positive customer relations by opening a couple USA factories to employ American citizens, with tons of publicity of course, ha!

Apple’s management shows itself to be a very short-term focused group, which is a sure sign of corporate failure in the making, as per any good class in Business Strategy


20 posted on 06/28/2019 9:10:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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