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I say gimmick.
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Hopefully, they won't have to erect nets to capture the suicidal robots.
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Mostly gimmick, but with the state of IP protections in China, you'll see more companies doing this.
Labor costs are rising in China. Counterfeiting and outright IP theft happen on a massive scale in China. Companies are finding that as labor costs go up and shrinkage continues unabated that China isn't the deal it once was. |
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Be sure to thank Obama for the jobs.
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To me it smells like an ad campaign. |
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They shouldn't worry about cost control. They can charge whatever the **** they want for their products and still sell a shitload of them. It makes sense to move manufacturing back to the USA.
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Because Apple really needs a gimmick to sell more computers.
Tim Cook is a suppy chain wizard, and if they say its cheaper to build the Mac Pro in the US then it probably is. |
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Good PR
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I do agree that the PR of this is secondary and it probably simply makes sense economically. Manufacturers in China are moving to more and more automation (robots FTW!) which negates the major advantage (labor cost) that they previously held. It's a smart move but is predicated upon our currently weak economy and hopefully isn't a sign that they know we will continue to remain relatively weak for the foreseeable future. |
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It's all about the labor cost deficit shrinking. As Chinese labor cost rises and America's stays depressed... it opens up more possibilities depending on the overall structure of the supply chain. My guess would be that they would start with Mac Minis or Mac Pros since there is no display involved and both sell relatively small numbers. Either way, the reports I have seen claim this would only be a 200 job operation... so pretty damn small to start. |
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It was mostly a joke dude, but if you look at form over function as a "gimmick" than that is Apple in a nutshell. If you disregard my snarky comment, your comment was still wrong since you seem to assume that Apple sells as many computers as they want to and dominate the market. That's not the case when they are at 15.1% and dropping... they are going to need a new "gimmick" soon if they want to avoid what happened to them in the 90s.
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Ah...fair enough.
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This is true and I really don't see them slipping below 10% any time in the near to intermediate future. I do however think that phones and tablets will continue to drop (percentage-wise) and Apple will need to find something new (possibly another big push into Apple TV type of stuff) if they expect to maintain current profit margins.
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