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“A key supplier to top technology brands such as Hewlett-Packard and Apple, Foxconn could invest as much as $10 billion in the plant, said one source, but did not specify an investment timeframe,” Xin and Soh report. “The factory will initially employ at least 20,000 workers, with half of those already having received training in Foxconn’s existing hub in the southern city of Shenzhen, the source added.”
Xin and Soh report, “Foxconn is expanding away from Shenzhen, which is in the Pearl River Delta area, to where wages are lower and workers more plentiful.”
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This plant should be built in the USA.
This plant should be built in the USA.
@Mark S.
Right. 20,000 employees marching to work while bowing to portraits of Chairman Mao. However, that would go over well in California.
@Mark S.
Right. 20,000 employees marching to work while bowing to portraits of Chairman Mao. However, that would go over well in California.
It really is too bad that such a plant can’t be located in the US given the dearth of jobs.
I wonder how much more the iWants would cost if they were actually made here at home. Would we be willing to pay more? Would Apple be willing to sacrifice some margin for the good will such a move would bring?
It really is too bad that such a plant can’t be located in the US given the dearth of jobs.
I wonder how much more the iWants would cost if they were actually made here at home. Would we be willing to pay more? Would Apple be willing to sacrifice some margin for the good will such a move would bring?
Q: How many ____ will Apple sell?
A: How many can Apple get made!
Q: How many ____ will Apple sell?
A: How many can Apple get made!
silverhawk, if California wanted Apple to expand and invest there, they would stop taxing, zoning, challenging, browning out electrical power, limiting water supply, …
Do you understand why Apple had to build their BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM in Maiden, North Carolina? Steve also needed to leave California when he was dyeing and needed a liver transplant.
silverhawk, if California wanted Apple to expand and invest there, they would stop taxing, zoning, challenging, browning out electrical power, limiting water supply, …
Do you understand why Apple had to build their BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM in Maiden, North Carolina? Steve also needed to leave California when he was dyeing and needed a liver transplant.
American people need those jobs.
It is exploitation to send those jobs to a communist country.
American people need those jobs.
It is exploitation to send those jobs to a communist country.
Amen Mark S.
It is a shame so many in the investor class can see only their own greedy interests. Comments like from Silverhawk and Jersey Trader are utterly devoid of both patriotism and human spirit. Workers should not be forced to choose between environmental protection and protection from predatory business practices, and their jobs. That false choice is the logic of outsourcing which folks like Silverhawk and Jersey flail around in order to hide the other obvious choice- greater social equality through reduction of obscene unearned profit expectations.
That said, we are far from the place where it would make much sense for Apple to locate this plant in USA. Unfortunately due to lack of public investment in science/engineering education and basic infrastructure we are getting farther every day. Maybe Apple could build a small plant to make double-price products so us tiny minority of well-off patriotic investor/consumers could do our part to build our country through our consumption. But it would be a tiny business. What is really needed is political change. Unfortunately we look set to fall further behind soon on that front too.
Amen Mark S.
It is a shame so many in the investor class can see only their own greedy interests. Comments like from Silverhawk and Jersey Trader are utterly devoid of both patriotism and human spirit. Workers should not be forced to choose between environmental protection and protection from predatory business practices, and their jobs. That false choice is the logic of outsourcing which folks like Silverhawk and Jersey flail around in order to hide the other obvious choice- greater social equality through reduction of obscene unearned profit expectations.
That said, we are far from the place where it would make much sense for Apple to locate this plant in USA. Unfortunately due to lack of public investment in science/engineering education and basic infrastructure we are getting farther every day. Maybe Apple could build a small plant to make double-price products so us tiny minority of well-off patriotic investor/consumers could do our part to build our country through our consumption. But it would be a tiny business. What is really needed is political change. Unfortunately we look set to fall further behind soon on that front too.
The problem with work going to China is that their currency is pegged to our Dollar. No mater how many many unions and regulations you take away China can still make things cheaper. If we had truly declared war like WWII, and not payed for them with foreign dept we could force China to float their currency like every other industrialized nation.
I do want to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. That is why I don’t let a Austrialtion and a Saudi tell me how to be an American. Look at who owns you news source, pays the news staff to see who will benefit from your vote.
The problem with work going to China is that their currency is pegged to our Dollar. No mater how many many unions and regulations you take away China can still make things cheaper. If we had truly declared war like WWII, and not payed for them with foreign dept we could force China to float their currency like every other industrialized nation.
I do want to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. That is why I don’t let a Austrialtion and a Saudi tell me how to be an American. Look at who owns you news source, pays the news staff to see who will benefit from your vote.
Mmmm yeah snark on Cali all you ‘tardo, you iPad was conceived and realized here. You owe us!
Mmmm yeah snark on Cali all you ‘tardo, you iPad was conceived and realized here. You owe us!
There are places in the US where the cost of living is low and would be great for such a plant, such as the south.
If workers were treated as in a commuinist country here in the US, there would be an uproar.
Every now and then I work on an Apple product that was made in the USA.
It is wrong to take advantage of the fruits of the labor of people held as chattel by a commuinist country.
Where is the liberal outrage over this?
Nowhere to be heard.
There are places in the US where the cost of living is low and would be great for such a plant, such as the south.
If workers were treated as in a commuinist country here in the US, there would be an uproar.
Every now and then I work on an Apple product that was made in the USA.
It is wrong to take advantage of the fruits of the labor of people held as chattel by a commuinist country.
Where is the liberal outrage over this?
Nowhere to be heard.
@Jersey
More than likely Apple was given tax credits, zoning considerations and guaranteed power and water to build in NC.
In other words, special favors. That is not “proof” that the business environment is “better” in NC, only that they will prostitute themselves to a greater degree.
@Jersey
More than likely Apple was given tax credits, zoning considerations and guaranteed power and water to build in NC.
In other words, special favors. That is not “proof” that the business environment is “better” in NC, only that they will prostitute themselves to a greater degree.
@Fredo. You’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.
@Fredo. You’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.
Jersey_Trader writes, “Do you understand why Apple had to build their BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM in Maiden, North Carolina? Steve also needed to leave California when he was dyeing and needed a liver transplant.”
Agree that California is the LAST place I’d consider for a major investment. (Any state that would seriously having Jerry Brown again as governor is a lost cause.)
A green-field site like Maiden might be appropriate for a server facility (few will be required on-site once it’s in operation), but a headquarters or R&D site would require access to much more intellectual capital (say the NC Triangle). A manufacturing site in Texas makes eminent sense. Very business friendly, and Apple or its OEMs could likely acquire some shuttered Dell facilities cheap!