Claims of Apple Investing Billions in Sharp and Toshiba LCD Factories Revived

[aohus]

just an FYI, Sharp is also making the highest end TV's out there to date, beating out Pioneer Kuro's plasma line. In fact, Sharp bought the 'Elite' brand from Pioneer. This time its LED LCD TV's, and not plasmas.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/04/sharp-elite-led-lcd-tv-hands-on-video/

65 and 70 inch LED tv's. The best in the industry thus far.

I can TOTALLY see Apple using Sharp to make their TV's. I'm buying SHARP stock now.

 

[DamenS]

All this money they're investing in other countries should be invested here in the States. All they're investing in here are stores and offices. How about striking a deal with Toshiba and Sharp to make factories here? Apple has massive power right now. How about throwing a bone or two to the country that made you?

Apple wish to remain competitive. In order to do so, they cannot support an expensive USA workforce and purchase additional expensive USA real estate when it is unecessary to do so; certainly their competitors are not bound by such a "moral" constriction and won't do so. If Apple were to do so and die (or even just be less competitive than Samsung who manufactur their own components in cheap countries), the USA would be worse off (and the non manufacturing jobs Apple provides would be gone). It is pretty simple really ... you can't have your cake and eat it.

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The majority of people in the UK have that attitude too... Well if we did pay extra for industries then we wouldn't be going down the toilet...

"IF everybody did the right thing, the right thing would be done".

"If" is very different from "is" or even "will". Whilst you ride your unicorn to work each day in order to earn enough money to pay for your pet dragon and the mortgage on your castle in the clouds, the rest of us in the real world (including Apple) will be subject to constraints placed upon us by reality ...

 

[divinox]

Investing in new supply chains: +1b
Kicking Samsung to the curb: priceless

Yeah, because Samsung has such a hard time offloading their panels......

Get off the crack.

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All this money they're investing in other countries should be invested here in the States. All they're investing in here are stores and offices. How about striking a deal with Toshiba and Sharp to make factories here? Apple has massive power right now. How about throwing a bone or two to the country that made you?

It has very little to do with "power", and very much to do with cost of production. But sure, if Apple covers the added costs (and initial investments) i doubt Toshiba or Sharp would mind really.

 

[aohus]

advice

buy SHARP stock NOW

 

[divinox]

I don't think thinness and lightness of the display matter that much anymore. I feel that the iphone 4 is plenty thin, and going skinnier hurts rather than helps. What they should be focusing on are things like power consumption, brightness, pixel density, gamut, width of side bezel, etc.

Dont forget contrast :- )

p.s.
an option to reducing the overall size of the device, is using the newly freed up space for something else.

 

[krburrell]

$1 billion is a lot of money.

 

[DanteMann]

Investing in new supply chains: +1b
Kicking Samsung to the curb: priceless

Funny how so many people avoided THIS NEWS and only had 62 comments when it was on the front page. Here it is again, so you can add you comments. You were certainly quick to add your comments here. Kicking Samsung to the curb? What a joke.

 

[vvswarup]

All this money they're investing in other countries should be invested here in the States. All they're investing in here are stores and offices. How about striking a deal with Toshiba and Sharp to make factories here? Apple has massive power right now. How about throwing a bone or two to the country that made you?

Quit spouting all the drivel in the media. At least they have an excuse-needing hits in order to generate advertising revenue. You on the other hand have no excuse. People like to say that Apple fans have no sense of critical thinking. According to them, they are just mindless sheep who follow whatever Steve Jobs tell them.

Evidently, the anti-Apple community has a habit of the doing the same. I've seen tech forums like Engadget and they vilify Apple for supposedly making money off the backs of "slave labor" and that Steve Jobs should pay those workers in China more. They conveniently forget that (a) Apple doesn't own Foxconn as they are a completely independent entity, and (b) everybody else uses them, like HP, Dell, and Amazon among others.

Now back to your post. You say that all Apple invests in the US is stores and offices. Well think about what happens whenever Apple builds a new store or office building. If Apple has to break new ground to build a store, they have to hire an engineering firm to conduct a survey. Also, they have to buy the construction materials from somewhere. That's money in the hands of not only the company making those construction materials, but also the one who transports the materials. Furthermore, the landlord gets rental income from Apple.