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I'd like to know who those 9,000 American suppliers and manufacturers are. Other than Corning who supplies the Gorilla Glasses for almost all smartphone makers
by tooltalk 9y ago
I'd like to know who those 9,000 American suppliers and manufacturers are. Other than Corning who supplies the Gorilla Glasses for almost all smartphone makers, I can't really name any significant domestic suppliers who would make up $55B of their "spending."
- zjaffee 9y agoApple wants to create competition for the components they need to drive down prices throughout the supply chain. Most of their investments relate to this from camera tech to oled screens.
- dx034 9y agoA supplier is also the company delivering fruit for offices or cleaning utensils.
- sigstoat 9y agoi expect intel gets a little bit of apple money. couple of bucks surely go micron's direction.
- ErikVandeWater 9y agoI'm guessing they are also counting suppliers for their infrastructure. So they are counting it when they buy 2x4s for a corporate office from a US wood supplier.
- matmann2001 9y agoTechnically, the structural components for an Apple corporate office are likely to also come from Corning.
- milcron 9y agoThey're building domestic datacenters, not iPhone factories.
- hugs 9y agoSometimes, it might be robotics companies whose products Apple uses to test their devices. You can't really name them because maybe you're not the target market for those products.
- paxy 9y agoThey don't mention if they are counting software vendors in this list as well. If so, it's pretty easy to hit that number. An employee wants a license for a drawing app? That company is now a "supplier".
- dboreham 9y agoAt least three of them will be supplying toilet paper. That leaves only 8997 left to account for.. Basically Apple just did a COUNT(*) query on their vendor table WHERE country IS 'USA'.
- madeofpalk 9y agoCleaners, security, (occasional) catering, office supplies for their retail stores in 45 states.