Apple's New Mac Pro Won't Be 'Made in USA' as Production Reportedly Moving to China

[1146331]

Apple didn't get rich by having morals. They don't care about the American worker but love to spout the SJW line.

 

[mikethemartian]

You think "their wealth" was amassed totally by themselves, without the benefit of a stable, secure society that is maintained by large numbers of other people?
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Other than instances where wealth was granted by the government to private persons and special interests with political influence (which I am 100% opposed to) that wealth was earned by producing something of value to the market. Someone was willing to take the financial risk and do the work that was required and as such they deserve the benefit. Obviously you have to have some taxes to build public roads and such but to imply that people who are wealthy achieved it because of the rest of society made some vague contribution is flawed.

 

[fairuz]

Yes greedy Tim Cook: keeping costs as low as possible to drive down on prices for customers.

Most of the savings won't be passed to consumers. They'll make it cheaper to produce and sell it around the same price.
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I knew it and posted about it right when they didn’t mention in at WWDC. It’s a shame. We should be able to manufacture things in the US and pay people. Companies making billions should just eat the cost of labor...

We're not a rich country if we can't trade with poor countries.

 

[handheldgames]

I haven’t posted on MR in what feels like at least a year (maybe even is ACTUALLY over a year). But I felt the need to pop back up from my hole.

This is a huge disappointment to me. I thought, correct me if I’m wrong, that Apple said, after announcing that the trash can Mac Pro would be mfg in the USA, that they were exploring other products to make here. Not less.

I hope they’ll reconsider.

Welcome back and I couldn't agree with you more... Moving all production and assembly to China would be equivalent to GM moving the 2020 Corvette C8 production to Mexico. GM, unlike Apple, is proud of their assembly line in Bowling Green Kentucky and over the last year doubled the size of the facility, adding a second production line.

While GM does make a lot of vehicles in Mexico, including the new Camaro Styled Blazer and the Chevy Cruz line that was shut down in Ohio to take advantage of non-union low paid workers, they are keeping their 'halo product' assembly in the USA, and doubling the size of the plants workforce. It's a sad day when Apple can learn a lesson from GM.. Yikes!

 

[Aldaris]

Personally I find living off another person by having their wealth redistributed to me depressing.

Who is John galt?

 

[mac_in_tosh]

Someone was willing to take the financial risk and do the work that was required and as such they deserve the benefit. Obviously you have to have some taxes to build public roads and such but to imply that people who are wealthy achieved it because of the rest of society made some vague contribution is flawed.

"and do the work" implies they alone, by themselves did all the work required to make their business a success. This is not generally the case. I'm not against such people being rewarded, but what we have now in the U.S. is out of balance.

 

[SeattleMoose]

America can't compete in manufacturing. That's just reality.

And they never will with that attitude. Besides the tariff war with China will offset any "labor savings".
Wasn't planning to buy it anyway, so this is just the final nail....

 

[iPadPublisher]

I think you mean drive down the costs for Apple. The price of these things is outrageous to the typical man on the street.

What Apple prices have gone down? Maxed out iPhone used to be $999... last I checked my XS (not Max) was four digits.
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What Apple prices have gone down? Maxed out iPhone used to be $999... last I checked my XS (not Max) was four digits.

I meant to quote the guy you were responding to... your point was perfect.

 

[Marekul]

And they never will with that attitude. Besides the tariff war with China will offset any "labor savings".
Wasn't planning to buy it anyway, so this is just the final nail....

It won't offset the 0% tax deal apple gets from china in exchange for merging their cloud infrastructure with the chinese regime and implementing social scoring on user data.

 

[beaker7]

128GB ECC modules are about $1,500. Twelve of them are about $18,000, so even if Apple charges a 2X premium for certified and tested memory, it is $36,000.
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Maybe so but anyone who has ever bet that Apple will charge less than their competitors for a RAM upgrade has lost. Badly.

Dell:
1.5TB 12x128GB DDR4 2666MHz LRDIMM ECC + $47,105.07

 

[Jyby]

Science Rules!

 

[alphaod]

Yet another reason not to buy it.

So what kind of MacBook Pro have you been buying?

 

[phrehdd]

You might want to check who makes everything else that you own.

Like anything else, I can certainly elect to stop purchasing from Apple and not have anything to do with Suzhou China. I don't have an iphone anymore and my last Apple purchase - 2015. Since you want to go this path, recall where the last Mac Pro assembly was done. Hint 2013 Texas unlike the new machines by Quanta Computers in China.

 

[supercoolmanchu]

Capitalism is not a clearly defined term .
It is however not the sort of anarchy you seem to suggest it should be, not by anyone's definition apart from Fox pundits' .

Capitalism as we know it has been regulated from day one , and that concept has never been in question .
It's like freedom - without responsibility there is none .

Capitalism when regulated is not capitalism. So the capitalism you think you know, is not capitalism. I think this explains your trouble understanding other economic concepts and clouds your viewpoint.

Anarchy is also not capitalism. Again, like the economic concepts, you are likely confusing some sociopolitical concepts as well.