People who b*tch on here about Apple get off on b*tching about Apple. They don't think about what they are saying any deeper than that. People who never worked for a major company and haven't a clue about manufacturing.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'It's Not True That the iPhone is Not Made in the United States'
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Glass and display are not the same thing. Display like screen, like OLED or LCD.. like SAMSUNG who makes them.
But government subsidies, substandard/dangerous products(Chinese steel, pet food, regular food, etc...), and piss-poor working conditions are good for the world, right?
You can't have globalism, without a small few making out like bandits, and many others being hurt by it.
That's what happens when you get popular and big. Suddenly you're the target every loves to shoot at despite the fact that you are one out of many doing the same thing you're getting all the heat for.
Actually, BrianUK makes no valid points. For example, Apple's effective US tax rate for the Dec 2017 quarter was 25.77%. This is for North America sales.
Are you mad at Samsung for not manufacturing in the USA? Oh, no, they are a Korean company so they get the benefit of the free pass. They don't have to pay the higher USA taxes, especially the repatriation taxes. It's no big deal that they manufacture their electronics in the same place as Apple because it's next door for them so it's OK. How convenient for them.
Not to mention all of the design, engineering, programming, etc. that goes into everything Apple makes.
Focus on manufacturing is shortsighted, but that’s to be expected from a certain demographic these days. It’s the same thinking that leads to efforts to kill our solar industry (and essentially hand the technology of the future over to Germany and China) in order to save a few thousand coal jobs. It’s idiotic.
We should be focused on, and proud of, all the HOMEGROWN BRAINPOWER that gives us things like the iPhone.
I'm sick of only hearing about politics from Apple. Haven't seen anything exciting in forever. No, the iPad isn't exciting; it's like the opposite.
It's not just about assembly. Design and manufacturing go hand in hand.
When the assembly skill is overseas, it makes sense to also move R&D overseas.
That's why you're seeing Apple setting up 4 research centers in China and spending half a billion dollars there.
Without the skills to do manufacturing, America is also starting to lose the research skills.
"the processor" means the A11 which is made by TSMC, which is located in Taiwan/China, and not in Texas at all.
SK Hynix makes the RAM and they have 3 factories, 2 in Korea and 1 in China, again not Texas.
Yes some of the other smaller parts are made by other companies including Texas Instruments which is why I named ones specifically NOT from the US like you asked me to.
Every time Little Timmy opens his mouth his nose grows an inch.
I don't give a crap. Let China do the dirty work. We don't need steel manufacturing by ugly, unhealthy factories in the US. We're a developed country that should be doing the work that requires education, not industrial age work. The only thing I care about is the pollution China creates that can affect other parts of the world, and that's the only reason I would argue for an embargo.
Also, they're not making off like bandits. They're just supplying something that we agree to buy. We can choose to not buy, but that would hurt us, so we don't.
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Just because you weren't interested in the HomePod and AirPods doesn't mean they haven't come out with anything new recently. Don't expect them to come out with a time machine any time soon if that's the kind of thing you need them to do to be exciting.
it will not cost more if made in the US, it will actually cost less. Apple may make less of their current huge profit, that's it.
HomePod could have been exciting, but it wasn't. It's another "solution in search of a problem." I admit I forgot about AirPods. Those are great. But the main reason they exist, the removal of the headphone jack, is annoying. They haven't made anything new, just tried to shuffle things around to keep up, make more profits, and try to rescue the iPad.
iPhone 1-4, retina MacBook Pro, retina iMac, Swift, and Time Machine (lol) were exciting.
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So.......?????
I am originally from a country where these companies are/were big, philips/Shell/ASML/Unilever/NXP, I don't care if they move jobs around solely because ...you know... they are GLOBAL companies and act like one(s).
Please explain how he is using an "alternate reality strategy." He's making the argument that the iPhone has components that are produced all over the world, including the USA. He points out specific examples of components that are produced in the USA. He also says that the iPhone is assembled in China. Explain the "alternative facts" in that.
Could you provide some examples of sophisticated manufacturing? Just so I understand what it is you're referring to. With companies like Foxconn, etc, all you see is factory line workers whose sole job is to place one component and then pass it down the line. That's not sophisticated.
Are you talking about manufacturing components like processors, etc? We make those in the US too, and it's mostly done by high tech machinery, not humans.
I was about to say the same thing, then I saw the wink emoji.
And, I don't want to get into a EU/USA "fight", just acknowledge we do things differently.
It's why we're still the best nation on this planet, so... sorry.
It's more like people are intolerant of arrogance. If you're arrogant and doing the same thing as what everyone else is doing, then yeah... you got a target on your face.