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> Apple was making Mac Pros in Texas... then they stopped and moved production to China. Quote: “It was an experiment to prove that the U.S. supply chain coul
by slver 5y ago
> Apple was making Mac Pros in Texas... then they stopped and moved production to China.
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“It was an experiment to prove that the U.S. supply chain could work as good as China’s, and it failed miserably,” a former senior manager is quoted as saying.
No one opens a whole factory just for the PR. They tried, and the experiment didn't work. The US has objective problems in supporting mass manufacturing and assembly. Guilting companies into it won't work.
- makomk 5y agoThe problem that the US has supporting mass manufacturing and assembly is that companies like Apple stopped making things there, and once that happened all the expertise and supply chains to support that manufacturing was lost, meaning that now it's not possible to make stuff in the US anymore and those companies are totally dependent on China which didn't make this mistake. Part of the problem Apple had was that they couldn't get items as basic as screws in the quantities needed from US suppliers, and why would they be able to when there's no US manufacturers which need those items in those quantities?
- slver 5y agoThere's a chicken egg problem, but let's not blame Apple for this trend. Apple's original move to China in the 90s was ALSO prompted by the need to scale. This wouldn't make sense if we interpret things the way you do.