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Originally posted by 11235813213455
Aloysius the Gaul must be a Windows fanboy
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Bixxi3
I wonder maybe its the amount of suicides they've caused directly or indirectly over the years for horrible conditions at factories.
You realize it isn't just Apple. Nearly every tech company has outsourced to China, and the majority of them use Foxconn for their services.
Originally posted by mikellmikell
Many of the larger US companies are bringing production back. Our company is investing nearly 1 BILLION in new manufacturing plants. This area all the closed factories have been bought out and are being rehabed. We have to build a new warehouse because there's no space within 10 miles to lease. 2014 is going to be a big year for US manyfacturing and they guy in charge is going to get the credit even though it related to global economics and the MADE IN THE USA brand
Originally posted by Expat888
good luck finding americans who will work under apples slave labour conditions.... wonder how many they will drive to suicide over there with their inhumane labour policies... or is the economy that bad that now they will tolerate a company like apple doing to them what its done to the chinese... how many more must die to satisfy apples greed ?
Originally posted by Malynn
It's a step in the right direction I guess. It's hard for me to get excited when a company like Apple announces a decision to do what would appear to be the right thing. When I think of any major US corporation I think of unscrupulous people doing whatever it takes to make a profit, I think of lobbyists paying for access and control of MY politicians, and how government basically sponsors their violation of the people and resources of the world. Like others have said, this will probably mean prison labor assembling products for 22 cents an hour. Sorry to be jaded & cynical but it's been a long time since I've seen anything to make me believe any major US corporation, or politician seated in DC gives a crap about America.
Originally posted by Pervius
Originally posted by mikellmikell
Many of the larger US companies are bringing production back. Our company is investing nearly 1 BILLION in new manufacturing plants. This area all the closed factories have been bought out and are being rehabed. We have to build a new warehouse because there's no space within 10 miles to lease. 2014 is going to be a big year for US manyfacturing and they guy in charge is going to get the credit even though it related to global economics and the MADE IN THE USA brand
They sent manufacturing to other countries because America can't get oil it needs anymore. 2007 Saudi Arabia declared they weren't accepting US dollars for oil anymore.....China is Saudi's biggest oil buyer now.
How on Earth would manufacturing ever come back to America since America can't get the oil it needs anymore? Not even Tampons are made in the USA anymore because of that. There will be no more American manufacturing boom. There is no longer a middle class to buy their goods. If Apple makes products on US soil, they will ALL be export products to people in the world with money. Germany, China, Middle East, Russia.
Originally posted by DoubleDNH
Can you show anything credible in the news about private corporations using 22 cent and hour prison labor for their private products? This idea seems to be tossed around in this thread quite a bit but I have never heard about companies doing this.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by khimbar
“Assembled in USA.”
Not made in. Parts will still be from China.
What minimum percentage has to be assembled in the USA for them to say that I wonder?
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Apple starts reversing its outsourcing??
That's interesting - it has come under much criticism along with other organuisations for manufacturing in China.
So what has changed:
apparently nothing at all -
Given that, why doesn’t Apple leave China entirely and manufacture everything in the U.S.? “It’s not so much about price, it’s about the skills,” Cook told Williams.
Echoing a theme stated by many other companies, Cook said he believes the U.S. education system is failing to produce enough people with the skills needed for modern manufacturing processes. He added, however, that he hopes the new Mac project will help spur others to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.
“The consumer electronics world was really never here,” Cook said. “It’s a matter of starting it here.”
so they need better skills, the education system isn't providing them, so they are brining manufacturing back in order to provide an incentive to get better skills?
That's how I read it at least.
Seems pretty strange It still doesn't answer why now? Why couldn't they have done this 2, 5, heck 10 years ago??
rockcenter.nb cnews.com
(visit the link for the full news article)edit on 6-12-2012 by Aloysius the Gaul because: crappy spelling
Originally posted by makemap
Originally posted by khimbar
“Assembled in USA.”
Not made in. Parts will still be from China.
What minimum percentage has to be assembled in the USA for them to say that I wonder?
Slavery is coming to USA, be warn. The Corporations don't care about countries. Now they are after the free. Have fun blaming China. Your kind of too late. Infiltration is higher than ever. Russia will be next. India is going to get the knife as usual. Watch and learn. As the rich ignores their own race it starts to becomes a sell out. Happening since 1900's western colonization of China.