Apple Plans to Repurpose Mesa, Arizona Sapphire Plant to Preserve Jobs

[gixxerfool]

Maybe they created a fake company then faked it's purchase, then faked it's bakruptcy just so they could use word play to disguise Steve Jobs secret cryogenic preserve.

Are you suggesting those weren't furnaces, but cryogenic containment units?

 

[Rogifan]

Btw, the manufacturing of the nMP relies on component and equipment suppliers from 23 states.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014...ckpay-strengthening-americas-small-businesses

For example, Metal Impact, located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, is a small supplier working with Apple — one of the companies that has signed on to SupplierPay — as part of its domestic manufacturing initiative for the Mac Pro. Metal Impact provides components for the Mac Pro's cylindrical aluminum enclosure, and is part of Apple's $100 million Mac Pro Project, which relies on component and equipment suppliers from 23 states.

 

[Zellio]

Are you suggesting those weren't furnaces, but cryogenic containment units?

They would need to be cloning chambers since Steve is alive in Rio De Janeiro going by the alias of Andy Hahn

 

[koruki]

A PR stunt, nothing more.
Color me unimpressed.

I would but you won't be impressed with the results.

 

[Michael Scrip]

Apple bankrupts a company and then takeovers it?

It didn't quite work out then... did it.

The only reason Apple started a relationship with GT Advanced was to get sapphire.

GT Advanced... the company as we know it... is gone. Finished. Kaput.

What Apple is left with is a facility that they will use for something. But not for making sapphire.

So I wouldn't say Apple "took over" GT Advanced.

This is more like a salvage mission...

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[bkushner]

The Mac Pro isn't manufactured in the US.

It is manufactured elsewhere and then assembled in the US.

untrue

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No. There is a regulatory difference between "assembled" and "made".

The Mac Pro is assembled in the USA from mostly foreign made parts. Not enough parts are domestically made in the USA, so the MP literally says "Assembled in the USA" on it, instead of "Made in USA".

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“With the new Mac Pro, we assemble the entire product and machine several of its high-precision components in the United States,” reads a product description from Apple. It also cites “industry-leading companies in Texas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, and over a dozen other states across America” as manufacturing several of the computer’s components.

Why the semantics? petty.

 

[locust76]

preserve steve jobs

 

[rGiskard]

Go back and watch the Apple video on the manufacturing of the MP. Nothing gimmicky about it.

Ok, I'll bite. I viewed the video when the nMP was announced, but I saw nothing that changes what is known about the nMP's gimmick design. What was in the video that has you humping Ive's pant leg?

 

[Col4bin]

So does this mean that Apple is officially giving up on sapphire?

I think the world has given up on it, for now.

 

[Yvan256]

preserve steve jobs

That's the kind of question non-english speakers are wondering. In french, for example, we don't capitalize the first letter of every word in a title.

 

[Tech198]

Is this a sign that Apple wants to manufacture all Mac products in US?

It may be good idea, even if it is not feasible, simply because Apple can tightly control suppliers better, and reduce delays we keep seeing..

 

[Soulweaponry]

preserve steve jobs

Cryogenically? I can see that happening

 

[SoAnyway]

preserve steve jobs

It would be awesome if he came back like Armin Zola from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

 

[Soulweaponry]

It would be awesome if he came back like Armin Zola from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.


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To say "one more thing" at a keynote

 

[RockSpider]

preserve steve jobs

I think it's a bit late for that.

 

[SeaFox]

preserve steve jobs

They'll seal him in sapphire like Han Solo!

Edit: Oh, someone already posted a picture on this page.

 

[CFreymarc]

Translation, "There are technologies here that we have the money to mature but not the contractor. In a way, the bankruptcy is good since we now can buy it all for pennies on the dollar. The employees here are just another expense like keeping the lights on."

 

[ttss6]

Preserve Steve Jobs in sapphire glass?? I wonder if they'd do it like Han Solo in carbonate except the metal frame on the outside would have the same design as the iPhone 4S with sapphire on both sides

 

[pietrov]

preserve steve jobs
probably also some marketing...

 

[Fishticks]

Great.
Free factory. Free power station. Tax free. Free workers.
Free iPhones soon then.

 

[mozumder]

Maybe so, but none of the components are made in the US. The logic board and electrical parts (the REAL work) are all made overseas, then shipped to the US to be snapped and screwed together in a pretty but gimmicky enclosure.

It's like buying a ready made pie crust and a can of pie filling, opening the can and pouring it into the crust, and then serving it. If you told anyone you "made" the pie then you would be a LIAR.

Well, in economics, you made the pie. It might not be authentic, but you still made it from those parts.

Economics doesn't care about where the parts come from, only where the FINAL product was made.

 

[itr81]

This is like Microsoft in the 80's... Bankrupting companies and taking them over for cheap.

I'm sure we will have tons of Replies from the Apple Defense Force soon.

Hmm..I guess you rather everyone lose their jobs. At least Apple is trying to help the city and the employees unlike the orig management that just helped speed up the downfall of their company. If they wouldn't have cashed out gt advance would still have operational money to get them into next yr and possibly into the green, but greed over ruled that.

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No. There is a regulatory difference between "assembled" and "made".

The Mac Pro is assembled in the USA from mostly foreign made parts. Not enough parts are domestically made in the USA, so the MP literally says "Assembled in the USA" on it, instead of "Made in USA".

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I guess technically it's designed and assembled in the USA but the parts are probably mostly from China, Japan and Korea.

 

[ghettochris]

Made in USA

Nothing sounds better than that.
It worth the investment to print this.

Made in the USA just seems like some good old American propaganda to me. It's a global economy. You're shooting yourself in the foot if you don't take advantage of it.

 

[FieldingMellish]

Robotics is what is bringing jobs back to the U.S. It just takes less employees. Witness the new 100% sustainable Volkswagon plant in the southern U.S.

 

[peterdevries]

Maybe so, but none of the components are made in the US. The logic board and electrical parts (the REAL work) are all made overseas, then shipped to the US to be snapped and screwed together in a pretty but gimmicky enclosure.

It's like buying a ready made pie crust and a can of pie filling, opening the can and pouring it into the crust, and then serving it. If you told anyone you "made" the pie then you would be a LIAR.

It doesn't really matter now does it? The point is that US citizens are working in a plant building an Apple product. All discussion about manufacturing or assembling is semantics and ignores the fact that Apple has invested in the creation of US based jobs. Whether they call themselves assembly workers, manufacturers or process industry workers is totally besides the real point here.