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Foxconn Planning U.S. Expansion Alongside Apple's Push for Domestic Mac Production
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The new Mac Pro would be the obvious one to be made in the US, although some final assembly of the iMac is already going on in the USA.
Maybe this is why the new 21.5" iMac is so hard to upgrade after the fact: Apple assumes USA workers with fatter fingers can't get into it.
Maybe this is why the new 21.5" iMac is so hard to upgrade after the fact: Apple assumes USA workers with fatter fingers can't get into it.
I'd agree that initial pay is higher but the agency to move up the rung is easier in fast food than a production line.
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Myth.
With Samsung also moving some production into the US, this is good news all around, and much needed for the US economy.
Contrary to popular belief, the wage difference does not amount to much as far as the product price goes. The % of a product's cost which is related to wages for manufacturing employees is so small as to not matter whether the guy makes 1$ or 30$ an hour, it's a difference of a few pennies to a dollar to cost.
Something Apple can very well afford with their current margins.
Contrary to popular belief, the wage difference does not amount to much as far as the product price goes. The % of a product's cost which is related to wages for manufacturing employees is so small as to not matter whether the guy makes 1$ or 30$ an hour, it's a difference of a few pennies to a dollar to cost.
Something Apple can very well afford with their current margins.
Union bosses must be drooling over the prospect of Apple setting up factories in U.S.
Right to work
There is already a standing directive from Steve that if Apple produced in the US it would be in right to work states. Any current production work in the US is in one already.
There is already a standing directive from Steve that if Apple produced in the US it would be in right to work states. Any current production work in the US is in one already.
Yea, in 1920 or in China where it's needed. Not here where we have an open society with media all over a company's jock when they do so much as look at an employee wrong. Look at Honda and Toyota. They paid their workers even when the assembly is halted (after tsunami) so they take care of them without the need for unions (they actually closed the only union shop in California in 09).
Companies nowadays are powerful, yes, but not when the threat of bad press is given to them in the way they treat their employees.
I just remember the flurry when people were posting Black Friday sales on Macs (like when Amazon dropped the price below a $1,000) - yeah that was more than $50, but everybody likes a deal.
Even as consumers of 'premium products', I think a lot more people will rationalize saving $50 than paying an extra $50
Nonsense. Unions today are nothing but political cash funds for the Democratic Party. All those millions of dollars in dues are pissed away to greedy pandering politicians. No benefit at all to the worker. Don't believe me? Ask those Hostess employees how great a Union is!
While all these union folks are sitting out of work, the union boss sits in his mansion and laughs all the way to the bank.
9to5Mac reporting that the iMacs are being made in Fremont, CA.
MR has been doing a poor job of reporting this. 9to5Mac has been running circles around MR lately.
Good, and god willing ALL states will transition to "Right To Work" states. There's no excuse for being forced in to a union and paying dues.
If there is an appreciable difference in quality I would imagine more knowledgeable consumers would try to find a made in USA one. I doubt Apple would market the made in USA factor on the box. Maybe they would say in a keynote a certain percentage are being made in the USA and how they are bringing jobs back.
However don't see much difference in a computer Amercian hands have versus Chinese hands. The parts that usually go wrong for me have been the logic board (namely GPU) and screens, which are not done by hand.
More posts about how horrible it would be to make stuff here...straight from China. So predictable. Happens every time there is a Made in USA discussion.
I bet the Pro is going to be made here to begin with. An easier proposition than trying to produce a million iPhones an hour...
I bet the Pro is going to be made here to begin with. An easier proposition than trying to produce a million iPhones an hour...
Good points in this article: Why The 2013 Mac Pro Will Be Made Exclusively In The USA
http://www.cultofmac.com/204802/why-the-2013-mac-pro-will-be-made-exclusively-in-the-usa/
http://www.cultofmac.com/204802/why-the-2013-mac-pro-will-be-made-exclusively-in-the-usa/
I like this move, and I'm a Canadian. I don't know how you are doing this, or why, but we (Canada) could learn from this. I'm going to forward a copy to the boys on parliament hill - hope they can read....
Not true. Unions try to force themselves on people even when they don't need them. Even when people are treated fairly. If union leaders had their way, everyone would be in a union and nobody would be able to bargain freely, on their own.