His many of Jobs 2.0 Apple products were manufactured in the United States? Maybe some BTO Macs? Certainly not their best selling products.
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Apple Supplier Foxconn Confirms Plans to Build TV Display Factory in Wisconsin
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Complete non sense!!! The whole point with bringing manufacturing back to the USA is to allow for the range of jobs any community needs. The idea that factory work is low skilled is complete baloney, especially in any modern automated factory. By bringing back manufacturing we open up a board spectrum of jobs from the level of a floor sweeper up to plant manager. In between you have technicians, programmers, engineers, metrology people, nurses, QC organizations, compliancy managers (safety and the like) and whatever a specific plant requires. Your use of the phrase "low skilled factory work" highlights a complete ignorance of what is required to run a factory. Often we see an upside down pyramid (somewhat) with the number of production workers athlete bottom.
AS for what happens in TEN years hell we could all be living in the stone age again when nuclear war destroys all of our electronics. You can't be assured of working on one plant forever. If nothing else technology moves on or you could suffer like many manufactures when a company like Apple wipes out your business.
Win what? Its not about winning. You made a statement about political bias when I stated a fact.
You're a long time Macrumors user. There have been rumors floating around about apple manufacturing some of their products in the US.
Also companies do not make decisions like this on the fly. Decisions like these have been in the works for at least a year.
Dude, calm down with trying to make literally everything negative and spouting off things that are untrue. Trump did not exaggerate the numbers. FOXCONN THEMSELVES announced those figures.
Do your research.
http://www.reuters.com/article/apple-foxconn-wisconsin-idUSL1N1KH10M
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And China is any different?
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-china-foxconn.html
Interesting. This states been grumping about a labor shortage, while posting flat & dropping wages.
It's also not one of the cheaper states to live in.
It's also not one of the cheaper states to live in.
He really feels relentless empathy for the difference of those 10k people that were holding their breath between now and 2020 for this gig based on Trump’s utterances like its fact, since they take his word for everything else but this, and will now be left out,
Vs. celebrating the 3k that will actually be employed, and a milestone in manufacturing moving back to US in some capacity,
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That can be the ONLY explanation, aside from the obvious of pol bias, right?
Just because something has been "in the works" for years doesn't mean it was guaranteed to happen eventually. I don't know details of this deal yet - I'm just saying that without Trump, those deals would very likely still be "in the works."
To make the deal happen there is a reported $3B in tax subsidies that will ultimately be paid by Wisconsin taxpayers. Not exactly fair to other companies already there.
I have no problem with America competing for these jobs. My issue is that somehow America is more worthy or deserving of these jobs or foreign companies have a duty to build factories in the US. I’m sure we’re not the only country to have lost manufacturing jobs. Also where is the American Foxconn, where are the American companies that can compete with Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturing companies?
If one is going to use flawed logic for a flimsy argument, consistently in the same manner, one could take away Obama’s legacy of taking down Osama Bin laden, when in reality its something that came up in Bush’s head once or twice after 9/11 and he talked about sometimes. FWIW and full disclosure, I cared for neither president.
But let’s not argue that way, because we should be above that.
Foxconnn said it will create 3,000 jobs. And the potential to grow to 13,000. Which means those 13,000 might never happen. 3,000 is the only solid number.
No matter what side you are on, this is a great day for Wisconsin and a huge win for the US.
Those are facts that cannot be denied.
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Thats very true, but that's not what I pointed out. I pointed out that you said those figures originated from Trump's exaggerations, which was proven false.
edit: At least you are getting your sources correct now.
Those are facts that cannot be denied.
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Thats very true, but that's not what I pointed out. I pointed out that you said those figures originated from Trump's exaggerations, which was proven false.
edit: At least you are getting your sources correct now.
We still have bank tellers and we still have cashiers—more, in fact. B&Ms killed themselves by not competing well enough.
You really should stop now because you are so far behind reality that you are making yourself look foolish. As for manufacturing in the USA where do you think the computer industry got its start. The whole industry is pretty much a development of the USA. Companies like HP, Apple and a whole host of others are what gave the Silicon Valley its name.
Like with everything, people are exaggerating the reasons and the scale.
Here's why they're doing this in a nutshell. Very large big screen TVs are costly to ship overseas and with inherent loss ratios.
This is the reason many foreign car manufacturers are building more here too. The decrease in shipping and related costs & losses help ease the higher employment costs.
By the way, this notion that Apple products have never been made in the US, is FALSE! In the 1980s & 1990s, most Apple products were still made in California or in the U.S. That changed dramatically when NAFTA became a "cool thing" along with foreign tax havens that most people didn't even know was happening.
Here's why they're doing this in a nutshell. Very large big screen TVs are costly to ship overseas and with inherent loss ratios.
This is the reason many foreign car manufacturers are building more here too. The decrease in shipping and related costs & losses help ease the higher employment costs.
By the way, this notion that Apple products have never been made in the US, is FALSE! In the 1980s & 1990s, most Apple products were still made in California or in the U.S. That changed dramatically when NAFTA became a "cool thing" along with foreign tax havens that most people didn't even know was happening.
yeah but that won't stop the trump sycophants on this forum from getting on their knees.
I pointed this out already in this thread, but those figures did NOT come from Trump. Those figures were reported by FOXCONN in Foxconn's official statement.
Not sticking up for any of Trump's past statements - but in this particular case, he is not at fault.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-foxconn-wisconsin-idUSKBN1AB258
Not related to this...
Except this factory has nothing to do with Apple... so there's that.yeah but that won't stop the trump sycophants on this forum from getting on their knees.
This factory will be making TV sized LCD displays and "may" make smaller ones in the future.
This is pretty much my opinion too. There are something Is really dislike about the Trump administration but another Democrat would have been absolutely terrible for this country. Frankly any Democrat, but Hillary would have been especially bad considering her hawkish attitude towards Russia. The problem is the Democrats have become the most elitist of the political parties in this country, bluntly serving the needs of the 1% at the top.
At least Trump understands how so many Ameircans have suffered under the several decades of administrations that have collectively said screw you to anybody not making a million or more a year. Sadly most of Trumps political party doesn't really get it either. There needs to be opportunity in this country for everyone and that has been missing for far too long.
That doesn't mean it isn't the same factory that Apple reportedly asked Foxconn to look into building.
So Steve Jobs started manufacturing Apple hardware in China because of NAFTA?
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Shhh...don’t ruin the populists big day.
