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Tim Cook Shares Details About New 'Made in USA' Mac Model
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Less costly shipping, for one. Is it better to ship all the components to China (from all around the world), then ship most of those products back to the US, or just ship all the components to the US and the products are already here? I think Apple is going to, eventually if markets keep increasing for their products, get as much localized manufacturing as possible. More factories in the US, in Brazil, and yes, even in China. Apple wants to build everything as close to its final destination as possible.
I don't think Apple cares that much about political BS. They certainly haven't in the past. They may get some PR boost out of it though with their customers and the press, which Apple does care about.
I expect also, Apple feels a certain degree of apprehension about building certain components or assembling them in certain parts of the world. There's been a lot of leaks out of China, some of their suppliers have been copying their products (ahem, Samsung), and Apple wants to put a lid on all of that. There's also the widespread corruption in China that Apple may not want to deal so much with anymore. A lot of companies have been burned by IP theft and corruption in China over the years and have come to realize that cheap labor isn't worth it in the end when you have to deal with the government of China (including local government), and other Chinese companies ripping off your proprietary technologies. By bringing more manufacturing to the US, you can have a lot more control and a lot more legal recourse.
Either way.. there are many of us that could use this.
2xHD, modern ports, separate graphics card.
But if they do an on-board GPU, I'm not buying.
Later this year sounds like Fall-Winter.
To be fair, that was a pretty old interview. It just happened to include some statements relevant to the current situation.
For US customers sure. But for many other places in the world China is closer than the USA. And since Apple has >50% sales outside the USA . . .
Like I said, I expect Apple will do a lot more manufacturing in a lot more places, as their markets increase in size. They'll figure out where products are more popular where and build them closer to there.
I think you're right, it either has to be the Mac Pro or something that will be similarly expensive. The mini, with lower profit margins, makes no sense because whatever they build will cost more to build it in the U.S., so it has to have high profit margins.
If it was Digitimes that stated it would be the Mac Mini, you be assured it will in fact therefore be the Mac Pro
Given what they've done to their "pro" apps, they might just ditch the workstation, and as long as that desktop class system allows for separate graphics cards and replaceable HDs, I'd be fine with that personally.
There would be many good things about it. Two that come to mind immediately are that our unemployment levels are too high and our current accounts balance . Making more products in the US would help in both regards.
If you'd like, I could probably come up with a half-dozen more reasons why it is a good thing.
"Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida and Kentucky are among the states he mentioned as having parts and assembly located."
Well if anyone wants to do some research and find out what computer components are made in these state we could figure out exactly what product it is.
Well if anyone wants to do some research and find out what computer components are made in these state we could figure out exactly what product it is.
100,000,000,000% the MacPro.
Now all the Pros can find their inner peace once again.
And I'm glad. That's awesome news for the audio/video/animation industry!
Now all the Pros can find their inner peace once again.
And I'm glad. That's awesome news for the audio/video/animation industry!
Face it folks, the mac pro is DEAD! But I wouldn't rule out a mini pro. With adobe taking CS7 to online only, apple could make a powerful mini for whats left of there pro apps and still sell the apps. If a mini pro does happen, the only chance it would work is put a single 8 or 10 core xeon, 64 GB max ram, room for 2 SSD's and plenty of ports (firewire, USB3 and thunderbolt). It would have to be at least 3 times the height of the current mini. If nothing is released by December for the pro market, you know the mac pro is DEAD!
This sounds like it's more about ass kissing than making great computers. In other words, a dumb idea.
I can't think of a good reason to do this, except maybe if they are trying to bring things to market with greater secrecy or something, then move manufacturing abroad afterwards. More likely just another dumb idea, like their solar panels.
I can't think of a good reason to do this, except maybe if they are trying to bring things to market with greater secrecy or something, then move manufacturing abroad afterwards. More likely just another dumb idea, like their solar panels.
