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I think the change is that Apple isn't closing the plant all-together. "Apple made the previous Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, beginning in 2013. But with the new M
by cmiles74 7y ago
I think the change is that Apple isn't closing the plant all-together.
"Apple made the previous Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, beginning in 2013. But with the new Mac Pro unveiled this month being made in China, Apple is "shifting abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the US as trade tensions escalate between the Trump administration and Beijing," The Wall Street Journal reported today."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/apple-moves-mac-pro-production-from-texas-to-china/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/06/apple...
That said, this all feels somewhat self-inflicted. One wonders if the tariffs on imports from China hadn't been put in place, perhaps Apple wouldn't have wanted to move production of this model out of the US.
- jonknee 7y agoI mean it has to have been all but closed for years right? The only thing they ever made was a giant flop that never got a meaningful update. What could they possibly have been making for the last several years?
- Despegar 7y agoThe old Mac Pro was never updated, but they never stopped production of them.
- jonknee 7y agoYes, my point is how many units could they possibly be making. Even when it was new it barely sold, how many units could they be making today? Dozens a month?
- veryobviously 7y agoDo you have a reference for that? I assume they sold about as well as past MacPros, which would also be much smaller volume than iMacs and MacBooks.
- mceachen 7y agoAnecdotally, I've literally never seen a trash-can Mac pro outside an Apple store (and I even have friends that work at Apple). That a huge change from a decade or more ago, when Mac pro towers were under every desk on designer teams and ubiquitous at Mac developer shops. The MBP laptops just didn't have enough grunt at the time.
- mdorazio 7y agoProbably more like a few hundred a month. But still, I can't imagine it employing many people at all unless they also used for overflow assembly or something.
- Vomzor 7y agoMacstadium buys hundreds of them every month. https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstucki/status/1133487738915659776 https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstucki/status/11334877389156...
- cerberusss 7y agoFascinating thread with pictures, thanks man!