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[–] Timmy2 0 points 35 points (+35|-0) ago 

Such bullshit. Apple could have had this one tiny part flown in from China until the US plant got their equipment updated.

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[–] VandalayIndustries 0 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago 

Exactly what I was gonna post.

They’ll just rub their hands, and kvetch about this bullshit, and dumbfucks will believe them. Critical thinking is in short supply in America.

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[–] Meme_Factory_1776 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What??

(So is the attention span)

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[–] cantaloupe6 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Apple gave the company an impossible to satisfy order. The manufacturer cannot risk suppliying a demand not based on economic necessity - because Apple could and did take away the business capriciously. There was no other customer with similar needs.

"China is not just cheap. It’s a place where, because it’s an authoritarian government, you can marshal 100,000 people to work all night for you,”

What could go wrong with colleges educating mostly foreign enemies, providing them access to all your defenses, and having them build all your technology? Sure foreign governments will pay for this and then threaten with hypersonic missles and super-EMPs.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-30/china-russia-preparing-blackout-warfare-super-emp-bombs

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[–] 4saken 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Redesign. Jesus.

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[–] 4saken 1 point 5 points (+6|-1) ago 

This is not news to me. It isn't as hard as you think it is mate. It's simply just changing it to a screw we can manufactured here in the U.S. They shouldn't be allowed to use a propriety screw period. That shit needs to be outlawed. The Warranty Stickers aren't legit any longer. Time for the screws to be universal. This is more about finding a reason to not make them in the U.S.

If you think this is anything else than them playing politics then I have a bridge to sell ya.

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[–] Iamthelightning 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Thanks for the insight. That worries me.

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[–] HndrxMn 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

This has concerned me for a long time and it's nice to hear someone else talk about it. I've only experienced this from an electronics point of view but I hear the same from folks I know in other industries. There is a reason why NOS American made vacuum tubes are in such high demand and it's not because this or that sounds better; it's because they were made better. I think most folks are aware of it but can't see the enormity and long lasting impacts of completely outsourcing your parts supply and labor force. Preaching to the choir I suppose, what with the "journalists" and needing to learn to code (please God don't).

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

Hating on the Sinotronics...I found a pile of Telefunken's to feed the Hickock last Summer--good Times.

JJ's are good daily drivers.

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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

Paragraph breaks, brah

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[–] MrPim 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

He lost that technology back in the 80s.

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[–] Rizzo9000 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

thats seriously all you got out of that? cause i have to say, given voat's mostly watery Muh Jooz posts, this was actually some interesting anecdotal info

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[–] crazy_eyes ago 

its not production of the screws. its mass production of them. And its not the knowledge to make them its the equipment

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[–] Meme_Factory_1776 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Right on crazy eyes!! Seen this in other machining shops. The goal was not to reduce the smarts it was to reduce the machinery. The machines were scraped and the countries that do this now got new 'different' 'low qaulity (in comparison)' machines.

It's been a long time since I worked in a machine shop but it's just nuts to think of all small shops and large shops that 'disappeared'.

No shops = no classes = lost art.

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[–] derram 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

https://archive.ph/kA0aX :

2019-01-28 | A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - The New York Times

'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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[–] Humansized 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Apple is one of the most anti consumer companies around. The phones were NEVER going to be made in america because you have to pay americans for their labor.

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[–] Meme_Factory_1776 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Why the hell are they so expensive if they are using .05¢ a day labor? Seriously were are making this price up from to justify. They are not 'advaced' tech. Android can do everything an apple can do...

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[–] slickleg64 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Supply and demand. They cut the supply on initial release, releasing small quantitys on purpose. So apple occultists hipster leftist faggots wait weeks to pay $2.5k for a $200 phone. Then that price just sticks and gradually decreases once the demand drops.

Unlike say samsung who release way too many phones and saturate the market, keeping most of their phones cheap and in low demand.

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[–] thelma 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I make screws and nuts and bolts in my basement.

They are not hard to make.

They should have asked: how many can you make in a week?

Then when unhappy with the answer, call another company to also make additional screws.

Making screws is not complicated.

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[–] 16485637? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

This. I think their whole explanation reeks of bullshit. You can make any shaped screw you want and of any size. Don't give me this shit about American companies can't do it. It's just a fucking screw.

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[–] thelma ago 

Anyone can take out any screw. There are easy ways around specialty heads.

But explains why they want special screws.

Because they are fucking morons.

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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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