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> to meet demand for Clawbots is wild This is not in response to OpenClaw. It takes a long time to plan a new manufacturing facility. The Mac Mini is a natura

> to meet demand for Clawbots is wild This is not in response to OpenClaw. It takes a long time to plan a new manufacturing facility. The Mac Mini is a natural place to start training at a new facility because it's their simplest product. Mac Minis are also around 1% of Apple's device sales. Even with an OpenClaw-inspired burst of sales, it's still a small part of their volume.

gigatexal 9mo ago
This is to appease pumpkin potus and his merry band of idiots Update: For the record I do hate the POTUS. He’s ruined our reputation around the world. Allowed things like USAID to die removing aid from millions leading to many deaths. He’s incompetent and very stupid which will likely get us killed either in some war or in the next pandemic. Tarrifs are a tax. Congress raises taxes. If you support his right to tax without congress then go live under a king. I’m an American. We don’t want kings. Need I go on? And hating POTUS for what he’s doing to the country is my right as an American. We weren’t perfect. But we were at least respected. Now the world laughs at us. He works for me. And you. And he’s doing a garbage job at his job. Why continue to give him a free pass. Would you give someone like this in your team a pass? Here’s hoping his managers (congress) fires him (impeaches) him.
- gjsman-1000 9mo ago
  So what? Even if you hate who the president is, it is in the best interest of everyone that the president does a good job. Wanting the president to fail and millions to suffer is scorched earth hatred, not strategy.
  - rayiner 9mo ago
    Even if you hate the orange guy, there's something to be said for his approach of using threats to achieve results instead of carrots like tax breaks.
    - gigatexal 9mo ago
      Haha very telling that this is what you find laudable. Onshoring manufacturing … it’s a low margin low skill (relative) industry compared to the services and things of the modern economy. We import goods made cheaper in other countries and benefit from it in consumer surplus… that the educated here on HN can invert a tree or whatever the latest leet code garbage is being asked in interviews but never took and economics class or basic ethics is beyond me.
      - rayiner 9mo ago
        If you were correct, it would be trivial for Apple to reshore the manufacturing. But it’s not. Because what China has proven is that, when you outsource the “low margin low skill” stuff, everything going up the chain will follow. China used its low-margin low skill work to bootstrap the rest of the stack, and now they can make air to air missiles with range exceeding US missiles: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close-look-longest-a2a-pl17 https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close-... Margin is the wrong way to look at it. Law and finance are high margin work. But lawyers won’t help you win a war.
        TimorousBestie 9mo ago
        > China used its low-margin low skill work to bootstrap the rest of the stack, and now they can make air to air missiles with range exceeding US missiles: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close- https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close-... We’ve got to get you some better sources, mate. This is a straight-up Russian propagandist pretending to operate out of the UK while having a mailing address in South Korea. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/military-watch-magazine-bias/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/military-watch-magazine-bias/
        rayiner 9mo ago
        Fact check websites are tankie propaganda. But this particular point about air to air missiles is well attested.
  - bastardoperator 9mo ago
    This President isn't doing a good job on really any level. Its not that I want anyone to fail, it's that the President today is currently in a state of failure, and those failures like enriching himself can have long term devastating effects on our society.
    - rayiner 9mo ago
      [flagged]
      - gigatexal 9mo ago
        Obama managed to deport many without the vitriol or the killing of American citizens. Are you a one issue voter? Just showing a blind eye to everything so long as no brown folks cross into this country?
        rayiner 9mo ago
        According to the LA Times, that statistic is misleading: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-2014... (“A closer examination shows that immigrants living illegally in most of the continental U.S. are less likely to be deported today than before Obama came to office, according to immigration data… On the other side of the ledger, the number of people deported at or near the border has gone up — primarily as a result of changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s deportation statistics.”). I believe that the premise of the immigration laws is correct—that exceeding certain levels of immigration harms society for various reasons that have nothing to do with protecting sunscreen sales—just as Clinton and Obama claimed to do. Again, you can disagree with the premise. But my entire life I saw presidential candidates promise to fix this particular problem, and Trump succeeded.
        bastardoperator 9mo ago
        If they were cooked then they're cooked now. "Trump succeeded" remains unsupported by the same logic. Good shot on the googling and 12 year old article though.
  - gigatexal 9mo ago
    Business will continue to business. POTUS is a failed businessman many times over who only increased his wealth by whoring himself to our enemies be extorting our allies. I’m on the right side of history. Are you?
    - platevoltage 9mo ago
      I mean, now he's just straight up taking money from the treasury.
  - gigatexal 9mo ago
    This is the same as saying to a woman in an abusive relationship: “it’s in the best interest of the kids and the family and everyone else that you put on a happy face and make it look like he’s a good husband and father even if he beats you”
- kshacker 9mo ago
  The same thing could be said after polishing with AI and it will be a fact As stated, it is offensive You need to do appeasement as needed. Business is business.
  - gigatexal 9mo ago
    Your ability to rationalize would make you a king in a true failed state where might makes right and appeasement actually works. Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything like justifying the moron in chief.
alwillis 9mo ago
> Mac Minis are also around 1% of Apple's device sales. Apple doesn't break out the Mac sales by product, but the latest estimates is it's 5% [1] of total Mac sales. [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/23/mac-mini-us-manufacturing/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/23/mac-mini-us-manufacturi...
- Aurornis 9mo ago
  > Apple doesn't break out the Mac sales by product, but the latest estimates is it's 5% [1] of total Mac sales Right, but it's closer to 1% of total device sales like I said in my comment. Macs are only part of their device lineup, of course.
  - alwillis 9mo ago
    > Right, but it's closer to 1% of total device sales like I said in my comment. That’s correct.

gigatexal 9mo ago

This is to appease pumpkin potus and his merry band of idiots Update: For the record I do hate the POTUS. He’s ruined our reputation around the world. Allowed things like USAID to die removing aid from millions leading to many deaths. He’s incompetent and very stupid which will likely get us killed either in some war or in the next pandemic. Tarrifs are a tax. Congress raises taxes. If you support his right to tax without congress then go live under a king. I’m an American. We don’t want kings. Need I go on? And hating POTUS for what he’s doing to the country is my right as an American. We weren’t perfect. But we were at least respected. Now the world laughs at us. He works for me. And you. And he’s doing a garbage job at his job. Why continue to give him a free pass. Would you give someone like this in your team a pass? Here’s hoping his managers (congress) fires him (impeaches) him.

gjsman-1000 9mo ago
So what? Even if you hate who the president is, it is in the best interest of everyone that the president does a good job. Wanting the president to fail and millions to suffer is scorched earth hatred, not strategy.
- rayiner 9mo ago
  Even if you hate the orange guy, there's something to be said for his approach of using threats to achieve results instead of carrots like tax breaks.
  - gigatexal 9mo ago
    Haha very telling that this is what you find laudable. Onshoring manufacturing … it’s a low margin low skill (relative) industry compared to the services and things of the modern economy. We import goods made cheaper in other countries and benefit from it in consumer surplus… that the educated here on HN can invert a tree or whatever the latest leet code garbage is being asked in interviews but never took and economics class or basic ethics is beyond me.
    - rayiner 9mo ago
      If you were correct, it would be trivial for Apple to reshore the manufacturing. But it’s not. Because what China has proven is that, when you outsource the “low margin low skill” stuff, everything going up the chain will follow. China used its low-margin low skill work to bootstrap the rest of the stack, and now they can make air to air missiles with range exceeding US missiles: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close-look-longest-a2a-pl17 https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close-... Margin is the wrong way to look at it. Law and finance are high margin work. But lawyers won’t help you win a war.
      - TimorousBestie 9mo ago
        > China used its low-margin low skill work to bootstrap the rest of the stack, and now they can make air to air missiles with range exceeding US missiles: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close- https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-first-close-... We’ve got to get you some better sources, mate. This is a straight-up Russian propagandist pretending to operate out of the UK while having a mailing address in South Korea. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/military-watch-magazine-bias/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/military-watch-magazine-bias/
        rayiner 9mo ago
        Fact check websites are tankie propaganda. But this particular point about air to air missiles is well attested.
- bastardoperator 9mo ago
  This President isn't doing a good job on really any level. Its not that I want anyone to fail, it's that the President today is currently in a state of failure, and those failures like enriching himself can have long term devastating effects on our society.
  - rayiner 9mo ago
    [flagged]
    - gigatexal 9mo ago
      Obama managed to deport many without the vitriol or the killing of American citizens. Are you a one issue voter? Just showing a blind eye to everything so long as no brown folks cross into this country?
      - rayiner 9mo ago
        According to the LA Times, that statistic is misleading: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-2014... (“A closer examination shows that immigrants living illegally in most of the continental U.S. are less likely to be deported today than before Obama came to office, according to immigration data… On the other side of the ledger, the number of people deported at or near the border has gone up — primarily as a result of changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s deportation statistics.”). I believe that the premise of the immigration laws is correct—that exceeding certain levels of immigration harms society for various reasons that have nothing to do with protecting sunscreen sales—just as Clinton and Obama claimed to do. Again, you can disagree with the premise. But my entire life I saw presidential candidates promise to fix this particular problem, and Trump succeeded.
        bastardoperator 9mo ago
        If they were cooked then they're cooked now. "Trump succeeded" remains unsupported by the same logic. Good shot on the googling and 12 year old article though.
- gigatexal 9mo ago
  Business will continue to business. POTUS is a failed businessman many times over who only increased his wealth by whoring himself to our enemies be extorting our allies. I’m on the right side of history. Are you?
  - platevoltage 9mo ago
    I mean, now he's just straight up taking money from the treasury.
- gigatexal 9mo ago
  This is the same as saying to a woman in an abusive relationship: “it’s in the best interest of the kids and the family and everyone else that you put on a happy face and make it look like he’s a good husband and father even if he beats you”
kshacker 9mo ago
The same thing could be said after polishing with AI and it will be a fact As stated, it is offensive You need to do appeasement as needed. Business is business.
- gigatexal 9mo ago
  Your ability to rationalize would make you a king in a true failed state where might makes right and appeasement actually works. Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything like justifying the moron in chief.

alwillis 9mo ago

> Mac Minis are also around 1% of Apple's device sales. Apple doesn't break out the Mac sales by product, but the latest estimates is it's 5% [1] of total Mac sales. [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/23/mac-mini-us-manufacturing/ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/23/mac-mini-us-manufacturi...

Aurornis 9mo ago
> Apple doesn't break out the Mac sales by product, but the latest estimates is it's 5% [1] of total Mac sales Right, but it's closer to 1% of total device sales like I said in my comment. Macs are only part of their device lineup, of course.
- alwillis 9mo ago
  > Right, but it's closer to 1% of total device sales like I said in my comment. That’s correct.