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Apple to Continue Evaluating GT's Sapphire Production Progress, Looking for New Uses for Arizona Plant
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You are dead wrong on this one! It can be done, it has been done, they moved the jobs overseas and wreaked the tax base system and this was caused by those that control the money supply in the USA.
I was sort of thinking along the same lines, but how DARE you say such blasphemy here! LOL
The 700 jobs didn't exist before Apples investment.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/04/apple-signs-578m-sapphire-deal-with-gt-advanced-technology
With all the APPLE hate going on, when was the last time any other competitor made as much positive ethnical decisions than Apple. Seriously.
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It can be done but at what costs? And how long would it take? Would it be even feasible to have it in the US while maintaining current profit margin that shareholders love? All for what? Just to say it is made in USA? Apple is a global brand and worth more as a global brand than a US brand.
Decade is a safe bet.
Then we should start now. Those jobs a technology belong to this country not china!
No thanks. Send it back to China where they actually get stuff done.
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Nope. They belong where they can actually get stuff done. That isn't here.
"Late in the game"? You've got to be ignorant of manufacturing. Yes it's technically possible to do something like that, but that is of astronomical odds. You don't just make a decision last minute "Actually, we're going to use gorilla".
Secondly, we've had zero, absolutely zero actual reports of them using sapphire for screens. It's only been speculation by analysts, and well.. we all know how much those guys really know. Just because they currently USE sapphire for touchID and lens screen, and they have a patent for bonding sapphire to a screen doesn't mean they were going to do it for iPhone 6 & 6+. They need lots of sapphire for the watch. There is no way they would have been able to produce enough for the iPhone demand.
People just put the patent and GT together and said, sapphire screen! As the saying goes, Correlation does not imply causation.
How are those liquid metal iphones, ipads, and macs doing?
I do not let peer-pressure, fear or "groupthink" stop me from being able to Think Differently. More folks should give "independent thought" a try...it really is great!
"I think" blah blah blah. You know nothing. None of us do.
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Blaming Apple isn't thinking differently. It's pretty much following the herd mentality.
First of all Apples Gorilla Glass is made in the US and shipped to china, so all Apple was doing was trying to use a different US manufacturer for the front screen and it didnt work out, instead of the screens being made in Arizona, they are being made by Corning in Kentucky. Also currently all of the Mac Pros are being made in Austin, Texas which is the actual product that Tim Cook said he was moving manufacturing of back to the US. The reason that the iPhone and iPad are manufactured in China is number of workers needed for the effort, pure and simple. The logistics of manufacturing just a million items a month are huge, in the quantities that Apple is selling (almost 20 million phones + ipads a month) it takes 10s of 1000s of workers, and you can't drop a plant anywhere in the US and pickup anywhere near that kind of workers. Sorkin actually talked some about it in the Jobs book.
-Tig
Not on this particular topic at this particular forum.
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"I think" usually implies one is expressing a personal opinion. You should re-read your own signature a few hundred times today, and then look up the definition of groupthink.
Amen to that. Many people in the US are too lazy or entitled to do that kind of work. Don't get me wrong, we have good hard working people who currently do it, and do a good job (most of the time), but too many people feel entitled to a job making 60-70k right out of college or tech school. That's partly due to Gen X parents helicoptering their kids, but that's a different discussion.
How is Cook responsible for GT's failure? And have you forgotten about the Mac Pro and the increased headcount in all the apple stores and the headquarters?
And this has what to do with any topic ever discussed on these forums? What concern of yours is his weight?
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Blaming Apple seems to have become the majority opinion here, not blasphemy. It's gotten to the point no one can say anything nice about Apple without being labeled a 'fanboi'.
Think differently yah sure.. just your lack lot logic is funny but hey that is why we have fiction movies and books.
Think I'll try manufacturing a sapphire boule this weekend. Microwave - check. Cooking utensils of various sizes - check. Thermometer - check. How difficult can it be?
Bashing Apple has become the predominate 'groupthink' on these forums. You are not 'thinking differently'.
UK. I'll post pics of the first test boule on Monday. Start taking orders Tuesday.
BTW, what exactly is a boule?
You are right certain tasks are best suited for China or some other oversea supplier. China has decades and decades of experience and people here think yah sure flip a switch and they can do it just as good with no issues. For the people who think this is not the case are delusional. Also 'Made in USA' is a feel good political talking point which is crazy overrated. Globalization is a foreign concept to the people who love to argue the fact we need to bring back jobs to the US. I seriously wonder if these people have even left their own state or know what happens outside of the US.
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Great going to buy some stamps to mail in my purchase order. Could I get my sapphire with lavender scent?
I see the pics of these boules in all these articles, but I don't see anything else to give me a reference to how big they are. The article mentioned "hundreds of kilograms", so exactly how large are these hunks of sapphire?
For once I actually want a banana for scale...