Apple Manufacturing In USA: CEO Tim Cook Shares Company's Plans To Make A Line Of Macs In America (VIDEO) A source I watched didn't know what the original source is/was. Not sure what rule I broke have seen plenty of general discussion much more "spirited"
This may be locked too, but I'm guessing it was because of the Union talk, which is highly political.
This is general discussion oh well. Been on the boards for years and some mod on hisstank said I posted a discussion in a bst that I didn't don't know what's going on these days. Must be the end of the world.
Your last thread was locked for the lack of a source and the rant that must have been pushing at least two different rules. This one is marginally better, but it will be monitored for anything breaking the rules, and closed if that happens.
To say the least, it will be interesting to see how this plays out. If there's any company that likes to shift paradigms, it's Apple.
Yeah, OP, I'm taking this from your original thread. From your first sentence, If you're going to go on a tirade over something you read(and then post it for us to read), please comprehend what you're reading first. The "guy" never says any such thing. The "guy" is the late Steve Jobs, and he is quoted as saying, "You can't find that many (engineers) in America to hire." While the number described was 30,000 engineers, this was in relation to the total 700,000 factory workers in China. Obviously, a few factories here in the states will not even come close to the total number of those employed in China. Second, Jobs stated that these "engineers" did not need PH'ds or have to be genuises. Some simple training from a tech or trade school/community colleges would be enough to meet the engineer requirement. So since it's not brain surgery to train these people, I don't see what your doom and gloom is all about.
It should be interesting how this move from overseas to the US will make Apple more or less expensive.
I'm gonna take a page out of smkspy's book and quote your comments from the last thread. The reason things get produced in China is because they have almost no regulation there and can literally have products manufactured at near slave labor ages. It's not that the workers don't "want" to be paid 40 an hour, it's that they have no choice and have to take whatever crap job they can get. Companies could easily find plenty of people willing to work full time 8 hour days for minimum wage in regulated factories within the US, they just don't want to deal with all the hassle of making sure they're factories are safe to work in and would rather pay a dollar a DAY for 12+ hour shifts in oversea factories. Also, Hostess went under because because of HORRIBLE management, going through three or four different CEOs in under a decade. In fact employees agreed to take a paycut, but on top of that the CEOs stopped paying into pension plans and cut retirement funding completely while at the same time giving the CEOs million dollar bonuses. It wasn't that Unions crippled the company into bankruptcy (not the first time it went under in the past 10 years btw) it's that management kept cutting benefits for their employees while paying their top guys more and more. All that said, if I have to pay a bit more to buy a product made in the USA then so be it. There's plenty of people here who would love any kind of job so bringing back production to the people who need work is a good thing imo.
I don't see why production in the US would necessitate a decrease in quality, provided sufficient resources in terms of training and manpower were invested. These new facilities would also be able to leverage top-of-the-line production technology that might already be beyond what FoxCon is using. It's also a brand-savvy move to distance Apple from the problems that FoxCon has had recently. If anything, it might actually decrease costs since you'd be able to mitigate some of the ever-increasing shipping fees to move Apple products from China to their most major market, the US. It could also speed up development time and repair schedules (if repairs could be done at these production facilities as well).
Truly excellent news. Apple are a huge company, perhaps their move will inspire more market confidence for US companies to bring more manufacturing back home.
Kind of glad that they are doing this to get jobs over here and employ folks that need a job. I am sure there prices for their computers still won't come down though and if anything they go up abit more. It would be nice if it did cause those computers are worth their weight in gold to have 1.
Good on them now if nz co.panies would stop shiping jobs over to china i will be happy lol. I might one day get a apple product
