Tim Cook says he wants there to be Apple products made in America

3. mas11 posted on 29 May 2012, 21:40 10

Sounds like a good idea, but is Apple really willing to give up profit? From what I know about Apple this doesn't seem likely.

5. clevername posted on 29 May 2012, 21:44 7

I'd love to see this. We need to get back to the world war 2 era days of industrial america. Make this country truly prosperous again.

6. mandkeee posted on 29 May 2012, 21:47 9

agree....i really hate "made in china"

8. Dr.Phil posted on 29 May 2012, 21:53 0

I would love for this to happen, but there are several reasons companies choose to have their products made elsewhere than here. If we start to work on fixing those problems, then we will see a rebirth of manufacturing here in the United States. It will be interesting to see which states they choose to build their manufacturing plants in. I can see a political battle brewing over this one.

9. dmckay12 posted on 29 May 2012, 22:01 0

Manufacturing in the U.S. is only one step in fixing America. For example fixing the crumbling infrastructure, change EPA regulations on oil drilled in the U.S. (Sulfur in Alaskan oil and oil sands in the Dakotas), trim the budget, raise taxes, giving engineers something else to do like building bullet trains instead of what dumb things that American engineers usually make, reach a compromise on divisive issues, and lower cost of labor to compete with china and other countries for manufacturing.

12. PhoneBug posted on 29 May 2012, 22:25 0

It will never happen

13. InspectorGadget80 posted on 29 May 2012, 22:33 6

Tim Cook SHOULD talk to his INVESTORS/STOCK HOLDERS. Theirs No way they want iPhones to be made here in the U.S. APPLE is so damn greedy they only care bout profits not jobs

14. pongkie posted on 29 May 2012, 22:38 0

I guess China is getting too expensive now. Their government is really greedy even invading small countries around them.

15. pete029 posted on 29 May 2012, 22:55 2

It would be great if Apple could follow through on this. Imagine the amount of jobs that would be created and how it could benefit the economy. Plus, I would gladly pay the premium price for Apple's products, which I've been refusing to do since they rip off everyone by charging way too much for their Chinese products.

18. Bluesky02 posted on 29 May 2012, 23:38 0

Interesting

19. nicholassss posted on 30 May 2012, 00:24 2

'MERICA!

20. VZWuser76 posted on 30 May 2012, 00:55 0

The reason we currently don't have enough tool & die makers is because companies that used their services took their business overseas to save money. And now they complain that they can't bring that work back because there isn't enough of an industry to handle their needs after they helped destroy that industry here. If this keeps up we're going to have a nation of sales people & consumers, and no manufacturing. Then where will we be?

21. microsoftnokiawin posted on 30 May 2012, 01:01 1

mean while Stephen Elop shutting down factories in Finland

i'm from aus by the way but i actually support this because i like it when products are made in home countries
and i feel sad each time i get something made in china (fox con) because it's an evil place

24. ph00ny posted on 30 May 2012, 08:11 0

um shouldn't it say CPUs for ipad and iphones are produced by Samsung in America?
LOL

31. remixfa posted on 30 May 2012, 21:25 0

I doubt it would ever happen, its just a nice PR snippet.

If it did happen though, I would give them total applause.

And actually, Taco, you brain dead troll, if you go read one of my posts from this morning, I straight up said If Apple made an iphone 100% in America, I would buy it just to support the cause of bringing more manufacturing jobs back stateside.

Which was well before I saw this article.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Foxconn-pledges-to- double-iPhoneiPad-factory-workers-salary-by-end-of -2013_id30699/comments/page/2