You guys do realize Foxconn had been rumored to be doing this since before trump was president right ?
It disgusts me that people have zero faith in our country anymore and think nobody can do these jobs.
What is he bringing back? When was the United States ever the hot bed of electronics manufacturing? I don’t want to go back to the 1950s (or earlier).
Right. Not everyone can be a lawyer, ceo, whatever. No shame in that. No shame in doing these jobs either.It disgusts me that people have zero faith in our country anymore and think nobody can do these jobs.
Bringing it back from where? Unless you mean replacing one factory job with another?Or maybe their livelihood has been factory work for generations (which was a good paying job that supported a family) and bringing it back.
You do realize that some of that nonsense with respect to Foxconn has been grossly blown out proportion by the liberal media. For example people commit suicide all over the world, yet for some reason a couple of suicides in China get blown out of proportion. Mind you that is in a country with a historically low suicide rate. Here in the USA we have had suicides from workers at the plant I worked at, the only difference is that they did so off property. We also have had people stabbed right in the plant. In no case was there a reason to believe management practices where responsible. In fact in one case OBAMA could rationally be blamed for letting the mentally ill in the country.
AS for knowledge corporations certainly develop a lot of knowledge over the years but there is an issue where you can stagnation without fresh input. This is one advantage of spreading your operations across the world as you end exposed to new ideas and cultures.
This is great news for blue collar workers in Wisconsin.
Did you read my earlier post that went into more detail on my thoughts here? I think it was actually a reply to one of yours...
I guess if you want the TL;DR, Apple's focus is and always has been on their bottom line. Once that was about nationalism. Now, it's likely they've identified a global marketing strategy as the best way to move more product. As such, it doesn't matter so much where they manufacture their products.
I'm not saying this factory is a bad thing. As I've said elsewhere, Foxconn has probably figured out how this will enable reduced cost when selling products to American consumers in the long term. As an American consumer, that might affect me directly, so I'm down. As an American, I appreciate that it might help some folks in Wisconsin get a job they need. So I'm also down. Nothing to complain about over here. I just think you're hanging an awful lot of praise on what, I suspect, was a very capitalist decision predicated on Foxconn's desire to grow.
This sentence contains a couple of statements that seem to contradict. Apple is the top recognized brand in the world, but is still primarily a US company?“These days” and thats not the way it should be for the top US company, and top brand recognized arguably, in the world.
I know everyone is enjoying the political debate, but I was more hung up on the idea of maybe a full Apple TV??
Not that great? Tell that to someone without a job that wants to feed their family.Its not that nobody thinks Americans can do these jobs, but people want better jobs. Manufacturing jobs are not that great. Long hours, stress on the body and crappy pay.
We are supposed to be a first world nation.
This sentence contains a couple of statements that seem to contradict. Apple is the top recognized brand in the world, but is still primarily a US company?
That uh... m'kay.
That’s some strong kool-aid your drinking if you think Foxconn decided within the last 6 months to bring a factory to the US. Of course Trump is President so he’ll take credit but I doubt he had much if anything to do with it (and I’d say the same if Obama was in office right now).Some people still whine. Give credit where the credit is due even if you do not like the person who pushed, and shamed others to get these jobs in the country.
Manufacturing jobs is still better than all the waiter jobs we created the last 8 years. Read some economics books, maybe you'll understand.
What an ignorant, ****-tard thing to say.Democrats hate jobs because it means less people on government welfare they can control the money to.
From China or from wherever. We’ve lost thousands of factories.Bringing it back from where? Unless you mean replacing one factory job with another?
I'm not a real political dude, and I don't exactly love Trump... but I find it hard to imagine this would have happened had the alternative candidate won.
Not that great? Tell that to someone without a job that wants to feed their family.
Uh... we still don't have any word actually from Apple that they'll even be investing in this plant. This is a Foxconn thing. I don't think it says anything about Apple, Foxconn does a ton of business that isn't Apple.I dont disagree,
It appears they can and Are making moves, to secure bottom line while helping the US economy.
I see no fault with both boxes being checked?
Why is it so important that a Chinese company build a factory in the United States?
Hey it wouldn’t be Trump if there wasn’t some exaggeration involved.More like 7 Billion and 3,000 jobs tops.![]()
Uh... we still don't have any word actually from Apple that they'll even be investing in this plant. This is a Foxconn thing. I don't think it says anything about Apple, Foxconn does a ton of business that isn't Apple.