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> So do the economics actually favor moving some manufacturing back to the US now or is this a token measure Haven't Apple always sourced their glass from the
by objclxt 13y ago
> So do the economics actually favor moving some manufacturing back to the US now or is this a token measure
Haven't Apple always sourced their glass from the US? I thought Corning made most of their stuff in Kentucky, but perhaps I'm wrong.
- zuppy 13y agoAs far as I understand from this article (page 5), it's not always made in US: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=5&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and... “Our customers are in Taiwan, Korea, Japan and China,” said James B. Flaws, Corning’s vice chairman and chief financial officer. “We could make the glass here, and then ship it by boat, but that takes 35 days. Or, we could ship it by air, but that’s 10 times as expensive. So we build our glass factories next door to assembly factories, and those are overseas.”