Why do people disagree? I just don't know what happened after the Mac Pro 2013 wasn't produced there anymore. Is Apple producing other things in there?
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Why do people disagree? I just don't know what happened after the Mac Pro 2013 wasn't produced there anymore. Is Apple producing other things in there?
Apple has a large campus in Austin TX that's (more or less) an outgrowth/extension of the 2013 factory, which then made the 2019 Mac Pro, and so on for the current Mac Pro. (As always there's argument, most of politically motivated and uninterested in business or technical reasoning, as to whether final assembly in TX counts as "manufacturing" or not.)
This campus as a whole appears to play a large role in Apple's ML work (maybe the "headquarters" for that work, but I don't know enough to say).
More interesting and probably relevant is that the same facility seems to house what is called the Material Recovery Lab which, among other things, rips old Apple hardware apart for recycling.
I'm not sure quite what the message is that China is making new Apple products while the US is breaking them down (wasn't it the other way round in the 1990s...) but that seems to be where we are.
