The $6,000 desktop computer had been the company’s only major device assembled in the U.S.
Apple Inc. is manufacturing its new Mac Pro computer in China, according to people familiar with its plans, shifting abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the U.S. as trade tensions escalate between the Trump administration and Beijing.
The tech giant has tapped Taiwanese contractor Quanta Computer Inc. to manufacture the $6,000 desktop computer and is ramping up production at a factory near Shanghai, the people said. Apple can save on shipping costs for components given the proximity of many of its suppliers to Shanghai, rather than having to supply a factory in the U.S.
While the Mac Pro isn’t one of Apple’s higher-volume products, the decision on where to make it carries out-size significance.
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4 comments:
Stop buying 🍎. Greedy SoBs.
Now, the government needs to prohibit the use of any of these devices within federal system boundaries!
hope they lose tons of money...what not enough illegals in your factories here? or is it that pesky living wage you leftards rage about? You understand your funding the red army?
But the 2020 Democrats are going to create good paying jobs paying mucho dinero so Americans only have to work one job and can live next door to Nancy Pelosi.
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