[–] stonewallphysics 0 points 1 point 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?
[–] stonewallphysics 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
A wonder how much Apple paid to have this drivel written. I have been in manufacturing supply for 20 years and those parts would not have stopped production when all that was needed was to order them for the final assembly. And Apple with its trillions could not have figured that out?
[–] A_M_Swallow 0 points 1 point 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.
[–] Blunt_Echo 0 points 1 point 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?)
[–] DopamineDumpster ago
That's definitely BS I'm a machinist and know of a dozen shops in a 30 mile radius of me that could make 1000s of that part, all day every day... NY Times is the enemy of the people never believe anything they say!
[–] derram 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
https://archive.ph/kA0aX :
'SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a trade war between the United States and China and past admonishments from President Trump “to start building their damn computers and things in this country,” Apple is unlikely to bring its manufacturing closer to home. '
'In 2012, Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, went on prime-time television to announce that Apple would make a Mac computer in the United States. '
'It would be the first Apple product in years to be manufactured by American workers, and the top-of-the-line Mac Pro would come with an unusual inscription: “Assembled in USA.”But when Apple began making the $3,000 computer in Austin, Tex., it struggled to find enough screws, according to three people who worked on the project and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. '
'In China, Apple relied on factories that can produce vast quantities of custom screws on short notice. '
' In Texas, where they say everything is bigger, it turned out the screw suppliers were not. '
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