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Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China (Oh my)
Wall Street Journal (no paywall) ^
| June 28, 2019 9:32 am ET
| By Tripp Mickle and Yoko Kubota
Posted on 06/29/2019 4:20:15 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Dirtbags
To: All
The fruits of the WTO keep paying dividends for our feckless Free Traitors.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Are you opening a mega-factory in the US producing parts in volume required for assembly - like custom made and designed screws? Because that’s why the US made parts are being shipped to China for final assembly - there are no such factories in the US.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:33:15 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Yet another reason for me to avoid Apple products like the plague.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:34:24 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
To: PIF
Nonsense, it will turn the new computer into a great keystroke logger for Beijing. China will have all the fanbois secrets.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:36:38 AM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: PIF
And to add, how many of these things are they going to make?
No Mega factory needed.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:38:15 AM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:38:15 AM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Just another Apple hater apparently.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:44:38 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
There are no secrets. Just Apple hating on your part while you type on a device made in China/Taiwan/South Korea.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:46:18 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
From reading the article, it sounds like it’s an expensive desktop computer that has very little market share. Article also talks about how when it was being made in the US, employees were “contract employees” who worked for minimum wage and would leave their shifts even if production was still in progress.
I don’t see this move as a big deal, other than perhaps leaving a negative impression about the company in the US.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:49:24 AM PDT
by
be-baw
To: PIF
Screws? Yours need tightening. Any number of EMS companies in the US could build this computer. A years supply of the China-made subassemblies would fit in a single cargo plane. They’re movng it because they want to.
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posted on
06/29/2019 4:58:06 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
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posted on
06/29/2019 5:08:14 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: PIF
Just another Apple hater apparently.I used Apple computers exclusively in the early 90s before moving to PCs. It wasn't so much the computers I hated as the elitist, arrogant and superior-acting Apple users. Apple can go pound rice. ;-)
To: bigbob
Any number of EMS companies in the US
Unfortunately that is not true - the last company hired by Apple to make the screws for the trash can model could not supply the required 20,000 screws per day Apple needed. And have you looked at the manufacturing specs for the Mac Pro? And if you believe there is such a company in the US that could produce the boxes at volume, please contact Apple and save them the headache of changing production venues.
No company moves production “just because they want to”.
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posted on
06/29/2019 5:31:29 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: rhombus10
So because some people acted badly, you hate the company that made the box? What kind of sense does that make?
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posted on
06/29/2019 5:32:40 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
Unfortunately that is not true - the last company hired by Apple to make the screws for the trash can model could not supply the required 20,000 screws per day Apple needed. And have you looked at the manufacturing specs for the Mac Pro? And if you believe there is such a company in the US that could produce the boxes at volume, please contact Apple and save them the headache of changing production venues.Yep. China is kicking our asses here in this regard.
We can't over the course of 20+ years ship our manufacturing base over to China and expect President Trump to bring it all back in two.
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posted on
06/29/2019 5:35:37 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Gay State Conservative
Apple Google Facebook amazon boycott
To: Gay State Conservative
Apple Google Facebook amazon boycott
To: PIF
No company moves production just because they want to. 100% true.
As for "Thimmy the Homo", no doubt he partners in Commie China for the cost savings and their shared hatred of America.
In addition, knowing Commie China steals their IP and can force Apple to embed spyware, Apple sold its soul to the devil.
A huge "NO THANKS" to anything Apple and its indoctrinated fanbois.
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posted on
06/29/2019 5:39:27 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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