Apple Plans to Build Three 'Big' Factories in the United States

[UKPoliticsGuy]

Don't forget to flog us Brits some work in that super awesome mega really big trade deal that we're working on since we're about to walk away from our biggest market (!)

I suggest the Americans do the assembly and the Brits do the marketing (everyone sounds better in a British accent )

 

[johannnn]

Especially when there are clear signs that Apple is stumbling...

Haha really? Stock price and quarterly revenues says otherwise.

 

[rols]

I'm still waiting for the day when I catch trump telling a truth.

You might want to start one of those 100,000 piece jigsaw puzzles or build the spaceshuttle out of cocktail sticks at 1/5th actual size because .. you got a long wait coming. (A very long wait, just a huge wait, I tell you, this wait .. it's the best wait, there's never been a wait like this, it's beautiful, I thought it up myself, smart, very smart .. )

 

[imronburgundy]

I can't wait for Apple to come out and make an official statement that this is BS.

 

[citysnaps]

You might want to start one of those 100,000 piece jigsaw puzzles or build the spaceshuttle out of cocktail sticks at 1/5th actual size because .. you got a long wait coming. (A very long wait, just a huge wait, I tell you, this wait .. it's the best wait, there's never been a wait like this, it's beautiful, I thought it up myself, smart, very smart .. )

Heh...

Check out actor Ron Perlman effortlessly sliding into trump-speak around the 3:00 mark on this vid. Dude's brilliant...

 

[Supermacguy]

Please fix the headline. It's not "Apple plans to big three big factories in the US", it's "Trump claims Apple plans to build 3 factories in the US", which is much different, as we all know the President's tendency to exaggerate and fabricate.

 

[JohnnyGo]

It sounds like less like a politician, and more like a 7 year old.

Indeed.

Trump English skills stopped at big, beautiful, nice, yuge !!! We usually teach our children to avoid using those words!

 

[5105973]

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.

My car made in Tennessee by workers who were treated like they counted for something made the most amazing car that I still drive 25 years later. I see others of its kind on the road to this day. The usual corporate politics gutted the original concept and purpose of that factory, not the rules that mandated they had humane working conditions.

My great aunt worked in a plastics factory and took pride in her work. Unless you've kin or friends who have actually done this kind of honest work, I don't think you should be denigrating them.

 

[MistrSynistr]

Show me a flattering image of Donald Trump from the past 25 years.

You can't. Because it doesn't exist.

It's also hard to report positive news when there is none. The Wall Street Journal is owned by NewsCorp FFS.

You mean the same guy who jumped out of his own limo to stop a robbery? Do you seriously believe the fake narrative the DNC/MSM controlled media puts forth of him? LOL

Same guy who is supposedly a racist but has had black girlfriends in the past?

This is why you all lose and will continue to do so. Stuck in your little fart chambers.
[doublepost=1501075608][/doublepost]I love how none of the left leaning posters in this topic have learned from the past year or so as to why they are losers.

Trump is a big, dumb, lying meanie! At least, that's what my sources tell me..who have lied to me for 30 plus years straight.

LOL. Become self reflective, do diligence on real information from varied sources, get yourself woke or keep losing.

That is your choice, and your only choice from this point forward.

 

[Huntn]

Apple has been talking about this years pre-disaster Trump. He does not get credit.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Same guy who is supposedly a racist but has had black girlfriends in the past?

So did Donald Sterling.

 

[gnipgnop]

Giving companies tax breaks to create jobs. We tried it over here in Europe. And guess what? It doesn't work.

No guessing required. The United States government already knows that for every dollar in revenue you lose to a corporate tax cut, you only get a very small fraction of that back in the form of economic stimulus. Companies typically just add the savings to profit, which means the $ doesn't go into circulation. There's decade after decade of factual, statistical evidence backing that up. Unemployment insurance and food stamps have significantly higher levels of positive stimulus per dollar vs. corporate tax cuts.

The problem is that the Republican party doesn't actually care that it doesn't work for the general economy. The only goal is to give the corporations a tax cut so that the execs and ownership can get richer and the stocks go up.

 

[Popeye206]

I love how many people here love to bash Trump. The guy is trying to improve the US economy, bring back jobs and help companies like Apple bring back the Billions of dollars they hold overseas to the US and invest it here. All good things for the US. I just wonder, will you complain if he cuts your federal taxes by 30-50% too?

 

[gnipgnop]

I love how many people here love to bash Trump. The guy is trying to improve the US economy, bring back jobs and help companies like Apple

Trump doesn't even understand how health insurance works, so how would he understand the U.S. economy?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...year-health-insurance/?utm_term=.ac47bffcc390

 

[StevieD100]

How can Tim Cook even speak to him anymore?
This is the presidents latest move to turn back time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40729996

He is banning Trans people from serving in the US Military. Tim Cook as a supporter of the LGBT movement need to stop working with Trump now.

 

[odds]

Indeed.

Trump English skills stopped at big, beautiful, nice, yuge !!! We usually teach our children to avoid using those words!

Watch his Poland speech!

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Haha really? Stock price and quarterly revenues says otherwise.

Misjudging the USB issue.
Misjudging the popularity, and usability of the 'touch bar'.
Misjudging the pricepoint and popularity of a 'pro' version of the iPad.
Rumors that the iPhone 8 will be between 'late' and 'very late'.
The increased spending on the prancing despots in DC.

I'm sure there are more, and I'll let others fill that void, but it looks like Apple is having some attitudinal issues. (Drinking their own Koolaid?)

Anyone that has been watching the business community of the past 15 years or so should realize that using the stock market as a yard stick for a companies performance isn't a good indication of the companies actual 'health'. It's like driving by watching the rear view mirror.

Sales are slipping across their offerings, and people have been unimpressed with the last few iterations of the iPhone, and are preparing to be underwhelmed by the new one(s), and dismayed to hear rumors of there being three or even possibly four different models to be released.

 

[ronntaylor]

Apple Isn’t Building 3 Factories in the U.S., No Matter What Trump Says

CONCLUSION: "We may see more jobs and new plants in the U.S. as Apple’s suppliers, from Foxconn to Samsung, continue to expand their manufacturing footstep here. But it won’t be Apple that will be building them, regardless of what Donald Trump claims Tim Cook told him."

 

[noekozz]

I love how many people here love to bash Trump. The guy is trying to improve the US economy, bring back jobs and help companies like Apple bring back the Billions of dollars they hold overseas to the US and invest it here. All good things for the US. I just wonder, will you complain if he cuts your federal taxes by 30-50% too?

I've got a great salesman that can sell you a beach house in Idaho. It's hard to believe a salesman about bringing back American jobs when his own suits are made in China. This goes right up there with the whole big rally he had in Indiana with the Carrier plant a few months back, and look at where they're at now.

And lolz @ people that keep comparing Trumps presidency to how well the stock market is doing that day.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

How can Tim Cook even speak to him anymore?
This is the presidents latest move to turn back time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40729996

He is banning Trans people from serving in the US Military. Tim Cook as a supporter of the LGBT movement need to stop working with Trump now.

But I'm sure that Tim would say he's being 'pragmatic'. A term, that after eight years of Obama makes the bile rise in the back of my throat. Pragmatism is just a fancy word for 'sellout' and 'wide stance'.

Corporations and their pampered lobbyists are flying around trump because they expect things from his misadministration. Things like money, and, well money. And bought and paid for 'legislation'. One polluter in my home town faced a massive cleanup and by spreading around a lot of 'speech', was actually able to get the state to RAISE the exposure level so there isn't a real problem there anymore. Really. Money talks. Apple wants something, and they think that the liar in chief can/will give it to them. Until trump turns on them like he is doing to most of his supporters.

I read an article about the emperor named Caligula. That wasn't his real name (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus). He was a very cruel and paranoid ruler. He made an open mockery of the government, and once had his horse named a senator.
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I love how many people here love to bash Trump. The guy is trying to improve the US economy, bring back jobs and help companies like Apple bring back the Billions of dollars they hold overseas to the US and invest it here. All good things for the US.

Apple and so many other corporations want to bring that money back TAX FREE. With all of the cash that trump has burned through on his golf junkets, and useless grandstanding, how much longer do you want to pay for it?

I just wonder, will you complain if he cuts your federal taxes by 30-50% too?

If he succeeds in bankrupting the entire country, Yes, I WILL be pissed that he cut taxes so much, but if you think that he will cut YOUR taxes, you need to stop smoking the trump weed. ALL of his tax plans carve the rates on the insanely rich a hell of a lot more than they do on you and I. Bush43 did the same, and look at the economic mess that was left.

What trickles down in the republican 'trickle down economy plan' is NOT money...

 

[Reason077]

American jobs for American robots!

 

[spiffers]

Misjudging the USB issue.
Misjudging the popularity, and usability of the 'touch bar'.
Misjudging the pricepoint and popularity of a 'pro' version of the iPad.
Rumors that the iPhone 8 will be between 'late' and 'very late'.

What USB-issue? Now pundits are hounding Microsoft for not having USB-C on their new devices. Apple was just a tad early, but there is no USB-issue anymore. Maybe you have an issue, but thats you.

Some pundits said the Touch Bar was not usable. Well, I use it all the time. And so does most of the ones that bought the MacBook Pro 2016 and now MacBook Pro 2017. Apple sold more laptops than the others combined between the release of the MBP TB 2016 and fourth quarter. So the popularity and usability is just something in your head. And a couple of others.

The iPad Pro tablets sold actually very good. And the price point is maybe a bit high for poor folks, so then buy some fandroid device.

Rumors. Right, read your own words one more time. RUMORS.

Enough said.

 

[Defthand]

Almost anything is possible when you have enough money. Apple has more than enough money to do anything it would like to do. Apple's problems today are due to the lack of tools to manage the infinite number of product-related decisions.

Bingo.

This is off topic, of course, but your observation is a fundamental one that applies to all huge companies, and is routinely unacknowledged. Big organizations are inherently inefficient and schizophrenic. Their staff populations, logistics, and chain of commands are overly-complex and prone to miscommunication, politics, and egos. Whereas, the younger and smaller Apple was more nimble and micromanaged by a visionary with defined expectations. The brand was respected for its maverick stylings and usability, rather than its market share. Today, I suspect the departments tell Cook what the best product strategy and features should be, and those are increasingly designed to cater to the least sophisticated expectations of the masses.

 

[johannnn]

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?

Misjudging the USB issue.
Misjudging the popularity, and usability of the 'touch bar'.
Misjudging the pricepoint and popularity of a 'pro' version of the iPad.
Rumors that the iPhone 8 will be between 'late' and 'very late'.
The increased spending on the prancing despots in DC.

I'm sure there are more, and I'll let others fill that void, but it looks like Apple is having some attitudinal issues. (Drinking their own Koolaid?)

Anyone that has been watching the business community of the past 15 years or so should realize that using the stock market as a yard stick for a companies performance isn't a good indication of the companies actual 'health'. It's like driving by watching the rear view mirror.

Sales are slipping across their offerings, and people have been unimpressed with the last few iterations of the iPhone, and are preparing to be underwhelmed by the new one(s), and dismayed to hear rumors of there being three or even possibly four different models to be released.

 

[spiffers]

Ridiculous. [snip] Were you one of the people that wanted to ditch the iOS App Store in 2009 because it was still just barely useful?

Guess he is just jealous, and can probably not afford the devices he crave.