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No comment from Apple.

I'll wait for Cook to explain.
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Sorry, but I trust Chinese fingernails versus, I deserve a 15 min break every 10 minutes American assembly line. Those American made Macs and iPhones are be the most faulty.

If there are US factories coming, they will be much more automated than the ones in China.
 
Thought - Or really just a few random brain cells firing ... I'm feeling salty today..

Let Apple bring money kept overseas into the US completely tax free, as long as it's used to fund schools that would teach the very manufacturing skills Tim has repeatedly said Americans lack. (He isn't wrong) Hell, open a few of their own if need be.

This would enable long term solutions for jobs, and manufacturing capacity, that should be considered essential to the ongoing security (financial and military) of this country.

Because we don't just need more skilled laborers for building iPhones. We also need them to build the future. New transportation, new energy, and on and on. Long term, we can't be solely dependent on other countries for the very technologies that our country runs on.

We don't need Apple, or anyone to bring jobs back, we need schools to bring basic education back. And, yes, Apple, and other companies that rightfully point out the lack of workers, could help themselves by helping those schools.

It's fine to point out that our country has gutted votech labor education over the past 50 years or so. But, I wish people that do, repeatedly, who could do things to help change that, would. Stop being Chicken Little and do something productive to help fix the problem you keep pointing at. Great, you already told me the kitchen is on fire. Grab the fire extinguisher RIGHT NEXT TO YOU and put the damn fire out!

This isn't a conservative or liberal issue. It isn't a blue collar or white collar issue. It's an anyone not using their brains as a seat cushion issue.
 
That's what I said when I saw the price for the new Macbook Pro.

I guess Apple has instituted Made in America prices to pay for the new factories.

The massive tax cuts (that have been teased by the Trump administration, but not yet realized) that have been proposed will more than cover the costs along with the savings in shipping for N. America, assuming the devices produced here will only be sold in this hemisphere and the China and India plants will manufacture for the rest of the world.

Hopefully the Trump administration pass tax reform by September, it will greatly help Apple and the US economy. Maybe if they throw in the repatriation tax holiday Trump can get Cook to commit to building a MacBook Pro with a 32gb option along with CoffeeLake?
 
As much as I would like Apple to start opening up big facilities here in the US, I wouldn't want it to somehow validate the aspirations of an incompetent idiot in the Oval Office like Trump.

The guy is now insulting his own damned Attorney General....on Twitter....

He repeatedly shrieked about how there were millions of people at his inauguration, the "biggest ever". When the National Park Service wanted to release the photos, the Trump administration tried to stop them.

He lies about EVERYTHING. Big things, small things, it doesn't matter. Yet millions of his supporters just seem to stand there with their eyes glazed over robotically chanting vapid slogans like "Make Murrica Great Again!" and blindly accepting whatever he says. It's freaking crazy.

The US now has an entire demographic of people who live in their own isolated fact-free echo chamber...
 
Way to go, Tim! You gave Trump a positive-sounding talking point, a day before he announced a ban on trans military service members. Sleep well tonight!
 
There were rumors that desktop Mac would be produced in US and that makes most sense. Also some laptop assembly is plausible.

I mean iPhone could be made in US as well but knowing Apple profit margins it would cost $1500. So I guess people would rather buy cheap iPhone than have jobs. Double stink.
 
China is becoming a major Apple competitor. Huawei Technologies just shipped 75 million phones last quarter for nearly 10% of the market. The P10 and P10 plus are basically iPhone 7 clones minus the great software.

Smart for Apple to move away from China if the world's largest telecom manufacturer is cloning Apple products for sale internationally. 73K P10 related listings on eBay.
 
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The massive tax cuts (that have been teased by the Trump administration, but not yet realized) that have been proposed will more than cover the costs along with the savings in shipping for N. America, assuming the devices produced here will only be sold in this hemisphere and the China and India plants will manufacture for the rest of the world.

Hopefully the Trump administration pass tax reform by September, it will greatly help Apple and the US economy. Maybe if they throw in the repatriation tax holiday Trump can get Cook to commit to building a MacBook Pro with a 32gb option along with CoffeeLake?

Seventeen inch size. I have a 15"and I don't want another this small.
 
I really have higher expectations of MacRumors than them posting headlines and stories based solely on the statements of a proven liar.
 
The massive tax cuts (that have been teased by the Trump administration, but not yet realized) that have been proposed will more than cover the costs along with the savings in shipping for N. America, assuming the devices produced here will only be sold in this hemisphere and the China and India plants will manufacture for the rest of the world.

Hopefully the Trump administration pass tax reform by September, it will greatly help Apple and the US economy. Maybe if they throw in the repatriation tax holiday Trump can get Cook to commit to building a MacBook Pro with a 32gb option along with CoffeeLake?
TBQH, Tax Simplification & Reform is the only thing Trump would be useful for TBQH.
 
Ridiculous. Everyone loves the new iPad Pro. There are false digitimes reports every year that the iPhone will be late. USB is in a transition period, no easy way to fix it. Every non-techie I know loves the touch bar for the easy accessibility to emojis. Were you one of the people that wanted to ditch the iOS App Store in 2009 because it was still just barely useful?

I did not say people 'hated' the pro. Many people I heard hated 'paying' for the pro. The USB issue was unfortunate. They could have left at least one. The touch bar is good for emoji access? If that's all it's used for, it's a failure. I have never had an issue with the concept of the iOS app store. The operation of it, sometimes...
 
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