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[–] Blunt_Echo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I know; let's outsource all our manufacturing to other countries and then try to score political points by saying we're going to move some production back to our native land. Later we can claim we couldn't move production back—even though we desperately tried—because all the high-tech, cutting-edge screw manufactures moved to other countries. Now, can we still keep our political points? (By the way, our CEO takes, and gives, it up the ass—isn't that worth some political points as well?)

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[–] A_M_Swallow 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The scandal is not that these parts are only made in east Asia but that India and Brazil are not suppliers. They are also cheap labour countries.

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[–] andrew_white_forever ago 

They have the manufacturing capability because we moved it there, so move it back faggot.

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[–] stonewallphysics 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A better headline:

"Apple Uses a Tiny Screw Fastener as Excuse to Crash It's Plans to Have iPhones Assembled in USA"

Corporate Greed and disdain of the current administrations push to seed manufacturing back into the US forced this nonsense of an excuse to be submitted to the New York Times. The NYT, popular for being the yam hole of elitist drivel is known never to check the voracity of the facts they are spoon fed to print.

Trusting the word of a Company that slowed the performance of it's older phones so that it's loyal customers would collectively spend billions of dollars on new models and now gives reasons for not hiring Americans to build them?