I'm in agreement with the other posters who mentioned the Mac Pro. Apple does have a big supply issue than needs to be sorted out, but it's not in Asia!
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Apple Hiring Engineers and Supply Chain Managers in Asia to Speed Up Production
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Supply issues and supply side investments cannot be looked through that prism unfortunately. Without knowing what pressure's apple is looking to put on its current supply base through increased updates of existing products or introduction of newer products the entire comparison is rather pointless. Apple's been in mobile computing (smartphones and tablets) for a little over 6 years and its perfectly logical to expect them to add products and that requires an updated supply side. If apple wants to go from one to 2 or 3 mobile phones per year by this year (or the next) then that requires quite a bit of work that has to trickle down to each and every area of its supply structure..Good to see that apple began addressing this issue in late 2013, 2014 device launch cycle should show some early results, but i feel the major benefit of the investment will begin to show 2-3 years down the pipeline. Apple's own "internal" document on growth-strategy would be so tempting to read 
Scary. Yes SCARY! Be AFRAID! FEAR!
The only thing scary to me is the unthinking belief you appear to have in the ridiculous drivel (aka "facts" in your knowledge-deprived world) that you wrote here...
Actually? You are advancing one of the most spurious narratives invented by Fox "news" and the right wing... a totally false narrative.
First, who is this "lazy half of our great nation" you speak of? Do you REALLY imagine that 180 million Americans are chilling on the couch, channel surfing, grooving on some tunes and enjoying a phat $50,000 FREE ANNUAL SALARY every year? Ha....
Let's see.... you can't be referring to the almost 1.4 million WORKING people that slave away at Walmart near minimum-wage who, due to being systematically underpaid and underemployed (and due to how Walmart schedules them, can't get a second job), are forced to apply for food supplements (to the tune of a WHOPPING $140 a month) and Medicaid (since Walmart doesn't hire "full time" and doesn't provide medical benefits or a living wage).
And what party animal in your fevered imagination actually makes "roughly $50,000...collecting welfare"?? Over $4,000 a month. Really. That's the norm, eh?
In truth, it's only the people that live in the fantasy world created by your non-critically-thinking excuse for a brain... I know this, because all you need to do, in order to see how ridiculous your statements are, is a tiny bit of math.
Half the country (you know, the "lazy half") = roughly 180,000,000 people.
multiplied X $50,000 a year...
Oh wow. NINE TRILLION DOLLARS! That's $9,000,000,000,000!!
A year.
See how silly you look now? Try not to do that anymore. For yourself and the rest of us. Thanks.
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having jobs in america is what makes mac pro shipment DELAYED.
I rather Chinese people work for apple and start mass production...ahem...foxconn.
Fewer product supply constraints for consumers in the western world, and being better prepared to serve the emerging and potentially huge south-east Asian market; another smart move by Apple.
Perhaps not good for us, but as an added benefit for Apple, a way to spend some of that foreign cash, that can't be repatriated without considerable tax consequences.
Lol. I'm pretty sure she isn't carving a logo into an aluminum shell with x-acto knife.
probably deburring the hole. i'm sure Apple has a reason for doing it by hand. machines are big, expensive, and often hard to get. then you have to pay people to program and operate and repair. simple tasks like this are best done by humans especially in China
Demand may be one of the factors...but really..it's the people at foxconn that mass produce...
Speaking of welfare, how about the 6 spawns of Sam Walton who inherited 16 billion each even though they did nothing to contribute to the success of Walmart and do nothing now to help manage it. No doubt this is a great demonstration of a use of resources by our economy, not a bunch of redneck sociopaths with too much money who should otherwise be living in a trailer park.
Need I also point out that godforsaken company is very much funded by food stamps? Now that Obama is cutting funding to food stamps, Walmart expects a cut in profits. Yes, it's a good thing we have you to place the blame in the right place.
It's not that companies are mis-allocating resources, it's those damned unemployed people.
So, it's a tax avoidance ploy along with the usual bevy of slave labor making all of this stuff. Excellent. Better prepared to serve the Asian market? Is that what the hedge fund manager told you guys? Right.
Making the stuff here would certainly remove supply constraints but profits and shlobbing the knob of shareholders is more important. I'd love to see a simple law passed here in the USA: you MUST make it here to sell it here. Period. Oh yeah, one more law too: You must spend a certain percentage of profit on payroll. The percentage should be high enough to pay living wages and benefits.
There, I just fixed the economy. You're all welcome.
i like the apple logos on the products and, that could be automated as well more than easily..
It's not about the one's already employed but about the one's who are unemployed and can't find a job. Too many of these huge corporations go to other countries and create jobs there because the bottom line is they increase profits that way.
united state need jobs , apple please bring all jobs back to our country ,
Why? So we can have more delays like the Mac Pro? So we can pay $1000+ for an iPad which only costs $500 now? The US SUCKS at manufacturing. We are not good at it and we cost too much. If you suck at growing carrots, stop growing carrots and buy them elsewhere. You know what else we suck at? Paying the prices of US products.
Speaking as a supply chain engineer...
The notion that only Foxconn (or the Chinese) can mass produce things is simply ridiculous.
If the nMP were being manufactured in China, things would only be worse (in terms of delays). Not only would it be manufactured with the same production capacity (due to equilibrium demand levels), but lead times would be longer due to international shipping (and all the delays it brings).
So ... but really ... nope.
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Maybe you could be a bit more precise than "The US SUCKS", or "we cost too much."
The real explanation has much less to do with "sucking" as you so eloquently put it (or rather, a lack of expertise in manufacturing), as much as the fact that labor costs are much higher elsewhere.
I'm not sure why everyone is so keen on bashing manufacturing in the US. It's not that we're somehow "bad" at it. It's simply the economics of the production function -- if the total cost of your inputs (raw materials, capital, and labor, specifically) are cheaper elsewhere, then that is where the manufacturing goes. In fact, a lot of manufacturing that has gone overseas is predicted to return back to the US in the next 20-30 year, especially in energy intensive industries (think steel, paper, chemicals etc.), due to lower energy prices here in the US, which are in turn because of the high amount of natural gas reserves here.
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So, it's a tax avoidance ploy along with the usual bevy of slave labor making all of this stuff. Excellent. Better prepared to serve the Asian market? Is that what the hedge fund manager told you guys? Right.
Making the stuff here would certainly remove supply constraints but profits and shlobbing the knob of shareholders is more important. I'd love to see a simple law passed here in the USA: you MUST make it here to sell it here. Period. Oh yeah, one more law too: You must spend a certain percentage of profit on payroll. The percentage should be high enough to pay living wages and benefits.
There, I just fixed the economy. You're all welcome.
...and thank goodness you're not in charge of our country, you clearly don't understand even the basics of economics.
I suggest you start by googling "comparative advantage and trade".
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/economic-sciences/trade/ohlin.html
(1) Trade restriction: Far from removing supply constraints ... nothing would get produced, because it would be far too expensive.
(2) Payroll restriction: Different companies (and industries) have different cost structures, ranging from very labor intensive, to very capital intensive. Why should all of these be subject to the same percentage? Why should the returns to labor be higher than the returns to capital?
Please don't ever become a politician. You're all welcome.
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