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Apple CEO Tim Cook Met With Prime Minister of Vietnam to Discuss Manufacturing
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Manufacturing outside of Asia is a no go, we locked ourselves in a cage and threw away the key decades ago.
Heaven forbid we build Apple products in a free country. Gotta protect margin at all costs.
Already happening.
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hey Timmy how about a country in the United States like Texas
Doesn’t Texas have like….one of the highest unemployment rates where unwilling people don’t want to work in that state? Seems like that would be a unlikely probability of that happening.
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Yeah, I understand this sentiment. As an American, I would LOVE to see Apple products made in the USA, but when you can build for (insert your amount here) less, even _i_ who am admittedly an idiot when it comes to business, can see the benefit of building elsewhere.
You can blame Unions for driving manufacturing outside of the US
Lower than:
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Unemployment rates in August were stable in 34 states and the District of Columbia, and higher in 16 states according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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What is it with communist and former communist countries? Please say no to manufacturing in Vietnam! I had a bike trainer that was made and engineered in Vietnam. Earlier units where you scuffed your feet before touching it would blow the motherboard because they didn't put enough caps on the dang thing.
Quality engineering there. Yeppers... Spared no expense, the didn't. Then they had to replace units that died, and I'm sure hoped other units didn't die of the same issue. DOH! And the assembly! YIKES!!! They over greased the heck out of so much of it. People were complaining about final assembled parts slipping while riding. Well, DUH! They put so damn much grease on them! I swabbed it all out of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th replacement I got.
Quality engineering there. Yeppers... Spared no expense, the didn't. Then they had to replace units that died, and I'm sure hoped other units didn't die of the same issue. DOH! And the assembly! YIKES!!! They over greased the heck out of so much of it. People were complaining about final assembled parts slipping while riding. Well, DUH! They put so damn much grease on them! I swabbed it all out of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th replacement I got.
Companies have been moving to Vietnam because China is expensive now. Plus their politics means that any executive can get grabbed and detained at any time if the CPP wants it.
This is a clear signal to all those people who are all “apple can’t move manufacturing to the us because skills.“ The US is more skilled than Vietnam for sure. Apple need cheap assemblers, not high-skill workers.
It’s good for Vietnam. It’s a great country with good people. Most consider the communists a mistake, but whatever. Now they all just want to get rich.
This is a clear signal to all those people who are all “apple can’t move manufacturing to the us because skills.“ The US is more skilled than Vietnam for sure. Apple need cheap assemblers, not high-skill workers.
It’s good for Vietnam. It’s a great country with good people. Most consider the communists a mistake, but whatever. Now they all just want to get rich.
To be fair, this is as much as USA problem as it is an Apple problem
Texas is a country? Think you mean state. 😉
Yes. In the end, it’s not Apple who is moving out, it’s the companies owning those Chinese factories (which are mostly Chinese or Taiwanese companies) who are diversifying their assets and to control cost as labor cost in China is rising.
Contrary to wordings, Apple doesn’t have a factory nor make their products themselves. In the end Apple is still in partnership with those Chinese companies, regardless of the location of the factories.
I cannot believe you’re doing this too: mixing a continent in a conversation of countries. Uggh. Disappointed bruh, even if you’re just making it easy for others to follow along. Picking cause we know better.
And yes I do hope African countries benefit as well from this, except Congo, Ghana under their current corruption rule that is apparent with Cobalt & precious metals mining. DeBeers has already announce no more diamind mining soon & full transition to synthetic diamonds so such agriculture & demotic economic opportunity for a transition.
I don’t think a shortage of citizens is happening for manufacturing, but the rising wealth of a nation is so fast everyone from farming lands are becoming higher educated & wanting better more financially secure lives.
India has already experienced this with countrymen working abroad sending wealth to families back home. India is THE last economy based on textiles, and rapidly moving beyond this.
As you hinted on, as a populace’s wealth increases so too does their taste for a better lifestyle, spending, education, and further economic growth.
Looking at the profile pic funny I wonder if it was a mistake lol, most likely though.
Apple already has & had computing manufacturing in Texas since 2013
Apple is Manufacturing its New Mac Pro in Austin
Update: Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell says Apple’s local manufacturing of the Mac Pro means about 800 new jobs.“I think it’s another day in the life of a…
You know there are 50 states plus DC, right? Are you arguing in support of their assertion or against it?
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Apple makes the thinnest hard to take apart computers, why can't they just design them with an automated assembly line in mind? Same motherboard for most products, cookie cutter asembly by robot for thin computers. They could design them very similar and just vary in screen size. I think they overengeneer their products. Now that they are not designed to last as long as their original products, who cares how they do it? Its not like they have to figure out how to make them more scratch resistant and less prone to glass shattering. Just go full robot and upgrade the robots occasionally. And if the robots keep breaking them glass then stop using so much stinking glass or make it even tougher to break. A win win. And they can have the plants in North America.
At the moment I would add any country other than Russia… 😉
