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Re:Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess by microtherion on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:56AM (#18692573)
About 80,000 of 130K worldwide employees are US-based, including the vast majority of upper management, design, and engineering. The fact that Apple doesn't do much of its own manufacturing nowadays is irrelevant to the location of the company.

https://www.apple.com/job-creation/

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Re:Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess by blfr on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:16AM (#18692629)
While employment is a good argument for company's locus, it's definitely not irrelevant for a company selling physical products where those are manufactured.

In fact, it matters so much that most western countries require the country of origin to be stapled onto the product.

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Re:Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess by microtherion on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:42AM (#18697115)
And if you look at Apple hardware, it often says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China".

I'd argue that the US got the better end of the value chain in this. Of course, it's possible for a company to outsource themselves out of business (cf Dell, which came quite close), but Apple does not seem to be on that trajectory.

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Re:Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess by nwellnhof on Sunday December 16, 2018 @07:14AM (#18692776)
> In fact, it matters so much that most western countries require the country of origin to be stapled onto the product.

AFAIK, country of origin labels aren't required in the EU, although there are efforts to change that.

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Re:Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess by gumby on Sunday December 16, 2018 @11:02AM (#18693595)
Interesting. They originated in the 1880s in the UK (still part of the E.U.) in the hope that when people saw that goos were coming from Germany or France they’d reject them.
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