Apple Investing $100 Million to Build Mac Line in Texas

[sundragon]

This sounds good but it seems to be a little PR stunt. Apple your products are made in China just admit it and move on.
Samsung has invested well over 4B in Texas which of course is why Apple chose Texas. Invest over 4B in Texas then you have me believing you make "stuff" in the US like Samsung does.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/news-events/press-releases/detail?newsId=11861

The difference is:
Apple is a US company. Major operations are in the US with US employees...
Samsung is a Korean company. Major operations are in South Korea with Korean employees...

As an American, I'm glad Samsung is investing in the US (I bet the Galaxy in your palm is still produced with parts from Korea/Taiwan/China). In the end the profit is coming back to the US though, not Korea - which makes the difference. You can keep your $4BN...

 

[waikano]

My guess is a new MacPro line...the one that many have been waiting for a couple of years now.

 

[waikano]

My guess is a new MacPro line...the one that many have been waiting for a couple of years now.

 

[blurr91]

Apple is based in California, why not build stuff in California?

 

[Osmin]

For a product to be truly made in America requires the parts to also be made in America. Otherwise you create a small amount of jobs for the assembly line. Apple may have 50,000 jobs in America right now but creates hundreds of thousands of foreign jobs for the manufacturing of the parts. Corporate America is becoming a foreign investor in foreign companies and consumer pay the fiscal deficits it produces while they still have a decent job. The tax loop holes makes sure the burden falls to the consumer through the raid on Social Security in the past with voter approved higher sales taxes and more hidden taxes in the future.

 

[Osmin]

For a product to be truly made in America requires the parts to also be made in America. Otherwise you create a small amount of jobs for the assembly line. Apple may have 50,000 jobs in America right now but creates hundreds of thousands of foreign jobs for the manufacturing of the parts. Corporate America is becoming a foreign investor in foreign companies and consumer pay the fiscal deficits it produces while they still have a decent job. The tax loop holes makes sure the burden falls to the consumer through the raid on Social Security in the past with voter approved higher sales taxes and more hidden taxes in the future.

 

[blurr91]

For a product to be truly made in America requires the parts to also be made in America. Otherwise you create a small amount of jobs for the assembly line. Apple may have 50,000 jobs in America right now but creates hundreds of thousands of foreign jobs for the manufacturing of the parts. Corporate America is becoming a foreign investor in foreign companies and consumer pay the fiscal deficits it produces while they still have a decent job. The tax loop holes makes sure the burden falls to the consumer through the raid on Social Security in the past with voter approved higher sales taxes and more hidden taxes in the future.

Hmmm...should the plastic housing of the product be produced from oil extracted in the US? Otherwise you're just sending money overseas. Should the workers in the US be natural born US citizens? Who knows, immigrants might remit money back to their home country, thus depriving us of sales tax or investment capital.

Remember, trade war caused the Great Depression, not the stock market crash.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Apple is not an "American" company. Although they started out as one.
They employ a few percentage of their employees in the US.
Mostly designers and coders. The majority of Apple's labor is overseas with Samsung and Foxcon. They then import their products duty free.

Then they funnel their profits to Ireland to avoid US taxes. Their deal with Ireland is 2% tax on deposits.
Their latest plan is to have Foxcon build assembly plants in the US to assemble their products so they can be labeled as "Made in USA". When technically they are made in China and Korea ,and the final assembly of modules will be done in the US at A Foxcon owned factory.

Just like the Bailed Out General Motors is building two new assembly plants in Mexico, and will close 2 more plants in the US.
The US taxpayers will "LOSE" around 15 billion dollars on the GM bailout . The Government is set to sell it's shares in GM at a huge loss.


We need to put an END to this Government WELFARE to Corporations. We the small business Owners and what is left of the middle class citizens pay the bill.

 

[hector2]

It's a no-brainer that Apple will choose to build their high end, highest margin product here in the US since it's lower volume and is the least sensitive to labor cost

 

[Srieya Devi]

Mac computers will be manufactured in USA: Tim Cook – for more information

http://www.trendsor.blogspot.in/2012/12/mac-computers-will-be-manufactured-in.html

In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that the plans are ready to manufacture Mac computers in USA. The manufacturing will be started from the next year and it is kept as a secret which mac line they are going to manufacture. This was the first interview of Tim Cook after Steve Jobs who died due to pancreatic... -