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Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America
- alex43578 6mo agoI can’t tell if this article is whining that Apple is working with partners to make too many parts in America or whining that Apple isn’t making enough parts in America.
- s0ss 6mo agoIsn’t whining the point of theregister though?
- drivingmenuts 6mo agoThe only reason Apple is doing this is to brown-nose Trump to keep him from tariff-ing them into lower profitability.
- ungreased0675 6mo agoThis article would be so much better if the author wasn’t so overt with their biases. This one article has more swipes than Tinder, which makes it hard to read.
- jimnotgym 6mo agoThat is very much the house style of The Register, isn't it? Love it or hate it
- drivingmenuts 6mo agoJust because he's biased, doesn't mean he's wrong.
- linksnapzz 6mo agoUK Reg commenters are sore b/c they have to deal with the prospects of mass-manufacture in the UK. Which will soon experience the sort of renaissance one would expect from trying to run industry on windmills & solar panels.
- Youden 6mo agoI find much reporting similarly painful. The style where they start with something like "John Smith was riding a bus to work [...]" and go on a whole narrative journey really annoys me too. For this reason I prefer sources like the Associated Press or Reuters. TFA could be replaced with https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-adds-bosch-cirrus-logic-others-us-manufacturing-program-invest-400-million-2026-03-26/ https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-adds-bosch-cirrus-log... for example. You can also ask an AI to rewrite using "neutral, factual, inverted-pyramid" style.
- kvuj 6mo agoThe comments on El Reg's article are... not the types of comment that will further the discussion of onshoring manufacturing.
- supertrope 6mo agoLow value add manufacturing is not coming back to America unless people are willing to work for $2/hour and the government lets factories dump waste into rivers.
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- rcdemski 6mo agoI’ll take the more positive angle that i appreciate sing a more diversified supply chain, no matter how small the change. You can’t lift and shift production off the entire widget overnight. Start with the less consequential components to get the flywheel running and continue adding more production. Little manufacturing successes have the ability to snowball into bigger ones.
- pogopop77 6mo agoThe irony is that on-shoring high-end manufacturing would be a good thing. But the approach of "do it right now, or I'll put tariffs on your product(s)" is not the way to get any lasting change. It's a way to get the performative changes we're seeing, that will drift right back offshore when this administration mercifully ends.
- supertrope 6mo agoKorea started with low value manufacturing through protectionism and state policy. They moved up to the top level of the value chain in just 25 years!
- daft_pink 6mo agoReality is that people in Western countries need TSMC to make high end chips outside of Taiwan, because we’ll all be screwed if China decides to invade Taiwan. This has nothing to do with how you feel about Trump. It’s just the cold hard facts. If you want stable access to technology in the future, you should be demanding secondary sources of high end chips, because none of us want to die fighting China in a war a few hundred miles off China’s coast line and 5,000-6,000 miles from most western countries (excluding Japan/Korea).