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| Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:22 am)
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In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC’s “Rock Center,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year. Mac fans will have to wait to see which Mac line it will be because Apple, widely known for its secrecy, left it vague. Cook's announcement may or may not confirm recent rumors in the blogosphere sparked by iMacs inscribed in the back with “Assembled in USA.”
“We’ve been working for years on doing more and more in the United States,” Cook told Williams.
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Cook also addresses several of the challenges Apple faces in bringing production back to the United States, pointing out once again that the educational system is not producing the expertise needed for major manufacturing in consumer electronics, but he hopes that Apple's effort can help spur progress in that area.
Apple is investing $100 million in the project.
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trillhog
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:25 am to nolanola)
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Apple is investing $100 million in the project.
change in the couch for apple
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LSUSUPERSTAR 
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:27 am to nolanola)
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expertise needed for major manufacturing in consumer electronics,
What does that even mean? I work in manufacturing making eye drops and most people around me aren't highly educated.
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el Gaucho 
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:27 am to nolanola)
Brian Williams? I love that song summer of 69!
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GetBackToWork
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:33 am to nolanola)
I wonder if any of this is related to the DoD being skittish about most pc/laptop technology made in china. I'm not up on the latest, but recall reading issues they had with continuing Thinkpads after the takeover by Lenovo from IBM.
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dagrippa
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:33 am to el Gaucho)
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Brian Williams? I love that song summer of 69!
 Adams?
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trillhog
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:38 am to nolanola)
i don't see how american's fat fingers will be able to assemble anything
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Sheep 
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:39 am to nolanola)
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Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing
I blame Obama for this travesty.
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el Gaucho
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:40 am to dagrippa)
Oh yeah Bryan Adams, right
Silly me, Bryan Williams was that guy in the monkees
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udtiger
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:41 am to nolanola)
They will regret the shite out of this.
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GeauxWrek
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:42 am to Sheep)
So how much will the price go up on their products?
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TROLA
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:43 am to nolanola)
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Cook also addresses several of the challenges Apple faces in bringing production back to the United States, pointing out once again that the educational system is not producing the expertise needed for major manufacturing in consumer electronics, but he hopes that Apple's effort can help spur progress in that area.
That's such a bull shite deflection.. Code for, its just damn expensive to manufacture electronics in the US.
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el Gaucho
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:44 am to udtiger)
Not if they go someplace they can get non union laborers
The CEO of Toyota was told Tennessee was a good place to build a factory and did a little research and toyota built plants there. They found out that the cars built here were of superior quality than the ones built in Japan. Therefore, now all Lexus and other high end Toyota cars are built here.
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:46 am to TROLA)
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educational system is not producing the expertise
What a crook of shite. Students from all over the world come to the US for higher education. Deflecting the question blaming it on the lower education.
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el Gaucho
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:46 am to TROLA)
You guys are silly
Our non union laborers do a better job than foreigners. Everybody knows that. Plus if they build factories here they'll lose less to unlicensed product being sold out the back door.
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s14suspense
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:47 am to el Gaucho)
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Therefore, now all Lexus and other high end Toyota cars are built here.
lol, no they're not.
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udtiger
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:48 am to el Gaucho)
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Not if they go someplace they can get non union laborers
I will shite a brick if Apple puts their manufacturing in a right to work state.
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Tmacelroy12
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:50 am to trillhog)
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Apple is investing $100 million in the project.
change in the couch for apple
Seriously, 100MM isn't even 1% of its total cash
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CarRamrod
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:51 am to Tmacelroy12)
So you have seen apples banking records?
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tylercsbn9
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| re: Apple to Move Some Production to US Manufacturing (Posted on 12/6/12 at 8:51 am to LSUSUPERSTAR)
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What does that even mean? I work in manufacturing making eye drops and most people around me aren't highly educated.
Yeah. I don't get it. They use fricking 16 year olds over in China to put shite together. Makes no sense.
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