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- utopian0
Tim Cook tells NBC Apple will be building Macs in the U.S.
FORTUNE -- Tim Cook drops a bombshell in his interview with Brian Williams scheduled to air Thursday evening: Apple (AAPL) next year will begin manufacturing one of its existing Mac lines exclusively in the U.S.
- not much of bomb shell.. they are putting them together here. They are still being built/manufactured in China.. pure PR.monolith
- Pure PR.monolith
- not necessarily, the whole point was that the China thing will be significantly less to nonemonospaced
- monospaced0
The Federal Trade Commission states specifically, "For the 'assembly' claim to be valid, the product's last 'substantial transformation' also should have occurred in the U.S. That's why a 'screwdriver' assembly in the U.S. of foreign components into a final product at the end of the manufacturing process doesn't usually qualify for the 'Assembled in USA' claim."
- 'substantial' is subjectivenb
- not to the FTC it isn'tmonospaced
- bored2death0
Apple building computers in the US is a sign of how devastated the economy is. It's now cheaper to build in the US than in China. This is not good news.
- http://i.imgur.com/j…utopian
- If it is actually cheaper to build in USA, it's great news. It means things are balancing out. Plus, better working conditions in the states.nb
- conditions in the states. Hard to say if they're doing it because it's cheaper.nb
- randommail0
Jobs understood the concept of being a leading brand. He WANTED other companies to copy Apple. He knew it always simply make Apple look that much better and seem to be the innovator, even though it was often they weren't actually. So in comparison, the competition was always, at best, 90% of what Apple was.
But I guess now that Apple has cut that cord, and is making other companies actually try something different, the comparison will cease to exist. Which I think is a losing game for Apple.
(I guess you can call me captain Obvious)
- i_monk0
- I like thatcraigatkinson
- is the future,, until then..autoflavour
- i_monk0
absolutely not! just saying that Apple doesn't make shitty products on purpose, as was implied by i_monk
– monospacedWhere did I "imply" that their frequent hardware problems were intentional?
- You implied all their products have major hardware problems that we only know about AFTER launchmonospaced
- which, of course, is absolutely falsemonospaced
- False? So YOU'RE saying Apple knows about the problems before launch.i_monk
- And I didn't imply that, I stated it: they have hardware problems which only become apparent after launch.i_monk
- You're reading into it if you think I'm saying they KNOW these problems will turn up and don't care.i_monk
- got it, I must have misreadmonospaced
- fadein110
^ there speaketh Apple's number one ambassador and all round butt plug monobrowspaced.
- Me? Not me. I couldn't care less what people use.nb
- once again, all you ever do is insult instead of just using grown-up words, stay classymonospaced
- monospaced0
Anyone complaining here should just ditch Apple completely and go to the superior platforms: Windows 8 and Android. Then we don't have to hear the constant whining when you realized you wasted your money on polished turds in countless threads.
- I want quality over quantity. That doesn't mean I'm going to start using a PC.instrmntl
- but.. but... Apple isn't quality, everyone is saying they're SHIT, right? LOLmonospaced
- Just becoming arrogant, not necessarily shite..instrmntl
- haha, I'm being sarcastic man, Apple is ideal for my line of workmonospaced
- haha i know. same.instrmntl
- fadein110
Apple aren't going anywhere for a long time but the sector is so fickle and so much competition with Android/Surface et all they are gonna lose dominance rapidly unless they come up with another excellently repackaged/marketed idea taken from somonee else soon.
- albums0
If only Bill wouldn't have saved them in 1997, this board wouldn't be so full of drivel.
- then make your first post a good onecraigatkinson
- lol. Says the man who can't even string a proper sentence together.set
- craigatkinson-1
New imac looks great but why no optical drive? New ipad looks great but the 'new ipad' is now defunct - nowhere to be seen. Ipad mini is just a small ipad - not sure I see the point without the ability to make calls.
If they made an ipad mini with built in phone I'd have one in a flash though!- next year maybemoldero
- But why buy an iPad Mini if its got a shitty low quality screen?! I wouldnt take a present of one...its old tech and they can keep it...darrenlamb
- "The best iPhone ever made"utopian
- mg330
Any of you using a magic mouse on a computer with Sonoma and find that the mouse lags like hell? I've had this problem for two weeks or so. Bought a new one today and it worked great until the past 30 minutes. It's driving me insane.
- sted1
HALP
Why does my iPhone started to replace parts of a sentence when I just wanted to fix a single word? WTF is this+!%
it wasn't like this few weeks ago damn.
- NBQ00-2
- NBQ00-3
Apple in Talks With Google to Bring Gemini AI Features to iPhone
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/0…
What happened to Siri? Piece of shit. And they can't get it together even after scrapping the car project.
- Siri is there. Why wouldn’t you consider that this would just become a better Siri? You think Apple can’t get what together? So confused.monospaced
- The car project didn’t even affect the company’s bottom line or market performance. So why are you acting like they failed you?monospaced
- people just really don't like chabots or virtual assistants... Ai powered or not. i thought Amazon sorted it with alexa and being able to buy stuffjonny_quest_lives
- but peeps hated "her" toojonny_quest_lives
- It was reported that the late 2022/2023 Amazon tech layoffs were largely due to Alexa costing billions but not actually generating much revenue.evilpeacock
- it was literally a magical device Amazon sold at a loss that you could yell at "Alexa "Order [item]." and it would be purchased.jonny_quest_lives
- and everyone universally said "meh"jonny_quest_lives
- probably why I am so skeptical about ai powered voice assistantsjonny_quest_lives
- Mono, are you implying that Siri and Gemini will make babies?NBQ00
- I’m just saying making assumptions is just that. And Apple has equity in Siri. Makes no sense to just kill it.monospaced
- No not kill it but it will stay dumb and mediocre instead of something groundbreaking.NBQ00
- Again you speak like you already know, you don’t, and act like they failed you somehow. This is just a sign that they might improve things. Calm down.monospaced
- utopian-2
- selling machine learning as artificial intelligence is the biggest lie of allhans_glib
- ^ where the fuck did this pedantic bullshit come from. Machine learning is a field of AI. It's been called AI since the 1950s not hard to fucking understand.kingsteven
- don't get me started on how fucking stupid this video is though. how to get 12 minutes and ad revenue from "apple is using AI as a marketing term now".kingsteven
- don't forget to click that like and subscribe button though...jonny_quest_lives