All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)

Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by kstenerud on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @07:30PM (#2732003)

In what way? Entrepreneurs are still failing and then eventually hitting home runs. Steve's full name is still Steven P. Jobs. And the US can still complete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer.

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Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by Apocryphon on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @01:19AM (#2732675)

This is the joke:

1. The hyphen is redundant nowadays on account of startup becoming a legitimate compound word.

2. No one needs to call Jobs by his full name, he's as big an icon as William Henry "Bill" Gates III. Steven P. is just so quaint-sounding.

3. [generic joke at the expense of American manufacturing]

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Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by bmastenbrook on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @07:38PM (#2732013)

"And the US can still complete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer."

Assuming that you're referring to the type of electronics manufacturing that NeXT was doing at its plant, can you provide any evidence to support this assertion?

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Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by eru on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @08:00PM (#2732060)

How about Intel?

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Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by bmastenbrook on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @08:08PM (#2732073)

Intel fabs chips here. They assemble electronics in China.

Edit: And that's assuming that they assemble electronics at all, which I wouldn't bet on.

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Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by slowcpu on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @08:32PM (#2732124)

Recent Intel Fabrication Locations:

Fab 24 Leixlip, Ireland

Fab 28 Kiryat Gat, Israel

Fab 68 Dalian, China

Fab 42 Chandler, Arizona, USA

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Recent Intel Assembly Sites:

Heredia, Costa Rica

Chengdu, China

Kulim, Malaysia

Penang, Malaysia

Saigon, Vietnam

Chandler, Arizona

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Re:All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) by foobarbazoo on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @10:35PM (#2732383)

Most of that is almost certainly, in part, for tax related reasons. Intel is profitable; profitable US companies want to keep those profits outside the US (see: Google).

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