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Did they basically just recycle this? https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-commits-430-billion-in-us-investments-over-five-years/ https://www.apple.com
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
Did they basically just recycle this?
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-commits-430-billion-in-us-investments-over-five-years/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-commits-430-bil...
- Handy-Man 2y agoYup. "Apple’s most recent announcement on US investment was a 2021 promise to spend $430 billion over the following five years, including a 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina, though development on that project has since paused." https://www.theverge.com/news/618172/apple-500-billion-us-investment-tariffs-trump https://www.theverge.com/news/618172/apple-500-billion-us-in...
- dmix 2y agoSome new things in the article - a larger investment number in a previously announced Austin campus - new factory in Houston "which will create thousands of jobs" - "doubling its $5 billion US Advanced Manufacturing Fund to $10 billion" - "It will also open an Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit in which Apple engineers and other experts will offer consultations to local businesses on “implementing AI and smart manufacturing techniques,” along with free classes for workers."
- jtbayly 2y agoThe 2021 announcement works out to $86B per year. The 2025 announcement works out to $125B per year. In my mind that’s a pretty substantial increase.
- ceejayoz 2y agoAbout half of that is just inflation; $86B is $104B now.
- black_puppydog 2y agoIIUC, that $86B in 2021 plus inflation works out to ~$100B in 2025. So it's a 25% increase then?
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- DannyBee 2y agoThey paused the last one they announced, so it's an infinite increase if it happens. But i expect, once the media cycle dies down, it'll get paused too, and then ignored because can't admit that something didn't work out!
- echelon 2y agoDoes anyone have a list of the times Apple has lied about bringing jobs back to the US (or keeping them here)? I recall Apple making a lot of noise about Macbooks being manufactured here, but that they eventually got shipped off to China.
- refulgentis 2y agoNo dog in this fight, and I agree with the premise, however there was never a time Apple made a ton of noise about MacBooks being manufactured in the US. There was a ton of noise about Mac Pros being manufactured in the US, but sadly, I am not nearly as familiar with Apple after, say 2018*. Not even sure if they have a Mac Pro anymore. :X and if they do, I assume it's not the same model (the black trashcan), so it makes me wonder if they bothered retooling here, or quietly moved it somewhere else * TL;Dr at some point it became clear to me Cook is Sculley 2.0. I date it to around walking around NYC and seeing an absurd amount of Apple News bus-stop ads. Services! (TM)
- giancarlostoro 2y agoIt is a Cheese Grater, and it runs an M2 at least. Made in Thailand, final assembly in US.
- refulgentis 2y agoCheers, ty
- dang 2y ago(This comment was originally posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158187, so "they" was Apple. We merged that thread hither.)
- wewewedxfgdf 2y ago"Hither" sadly underutilized word. Doubly true for "thither"
- kridsdale3 2y agoFollow those two up with a `yon` and buddy, you got a stew brewin'
- lemoncucumber 2y agoIt's a shame hither/thither/whither and their buddies hence/thence/whence are all archaic at this point
- evereverever 2y agoYep, just with less Austin Texas.
- blitzar 2y agoThey are focused on sustainability, why not extend it to recycling investments.