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To: bigbob

Any number of EMS companies in the US


Unfortunately that is not true - the last company hired by Apple to make the screws for the trash can model could not supply the required 20,000 screws per day Apple needed. And have you looked at the manufacturing specs for the Mac Pro? And if you believe there is such a company in the US that could produce the boxes at volume, please contact Apple and save them the headache of changing production venues.

No company moves production “just because they want to”.


15 posted on 06/29/2019 5:31:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF
Unfortunately that is not true - the last company hired by Apple to make the screws for the trash can model could not supply the required 20,000 screws per day Apple needed. And have you looked at the manufacturing specs for the Mac Pro? And if you believe there is such a company in the US that could produce the boxes at volume, please contact Apple and save them the headache of changing production venues.

Yep. China is kicking our asses here in this regard.

We can't over the course of 20+ years ship our manufacturing base over to China and expect President Trump to bring it all back in two.

17 posted on 06/29/2019 5:35:37 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: PIF
No company moves production “just because they want to”.

100% true.

As for "Thimmy the Homo", no doubt he partners in Commie China for the cost savings and their shared hatred of America.

In addition, knowing Commie China steals their IP and can force Apple to embed spyware, Apple sold its soul to the devil.

A huge "NO THANKS" to anything Apple and its indoctrinated fanbois.

20 posted on 06/29/2019 5:39:27 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: PIF
Unfortunately that is not true - the last company hired by Apple to make the screws for the trash can model could not supply the required 20,000 screws per day Apple needed. And have you looked at the manufacturing specs for the Mac Pro? And if you believe there is such a company in the US that could produce the boxes at volume, please contact Apple and save them the headache of changing production venues.

No company moves production “just because they want to”.

That is a complete myth. The Apple Mac Pro 2013, was and is still manufactured in Austin, Texas, from parts manufactured in the USA, including all the screws necessary for it. There was NEVER any need for a mythical “20,000 per day production of screws” for the 2013 Mac Pro model as it never had a production run requiring such a demand. That was a lie made up by a member of the Apple Hate Brigade and spread by people such as you who thought it sounded good, no matter how illogical it is, or unfactual it is.

In actual fact, it is extremely EASY to manufacture screws to specs required in the USA in high numbers. I know. My business has had complex Titanium, or Vitalium, screw parts manufactured in quantity at very reasonable quantity in a very short time to even MORE exacting standards than would be required by Apple to use as dental implant systems. . . and these were manufactured by a small machine shop in a small town in Central California, within a week of our making the order.

Just like this article, which is possibly true, although I doubt it, talking about merely the final assembly of the new Mac Pro, but news can be FUD, which is based on an anonymous source, which have no official standing, but merely cited as “according to people familiar with its plan.” But it really makes no sense, because in fact, the vast majority of the parts in the 2019 Mac Pro, in fact, the most expensive parts, the XEON processors, RAM memory, and SSD, are already manufactured and sourced from the USA and other countries which have zero trade issues with the US. It makes little sense for Apple to send those components to China for assembly when re-exporting them to the US will result in a 25% (minimum $1500) tariff added to the already high $6000 retail price on the lowest configuration. Use your heads.

44 posted on 06/29/2019 1:17:10 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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