Apple moves some production to the United States
Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that it will move some of the production of Macs to the United States. The plans will probably be well received: in the US, Apple has received a lot of criticism for outsourcing all production to Asia, among others.
Apple’s CEO did the news revealed in a TV program of the American channel NBC. One of Mac’s production lines will be moved to the US, Cook promised, though he didn’t say which line exactly. Previously, it was rumored that Apple may have plans in this direction after images surfaced showing Macs inscribed with the words “Assembled in USA.”
There has been a lot of criticism in the United States of Apple, which, like many other American companies, has its production carried out entirely in countries in Asia, including Mexico. The decision to bring some of the production back to the US is therefore likely to be well received. By the way, Cook disputes that the company outsources jobs because of the lower costs: “It’s about the skills,” he says. In the United States, he says, not enough people are trained to work in a modern factory.
During the conversation with NBC anchor Brian Williams, Cook also discussed the dissatisfaction with his own Maps application, which replaced Google’s maps in iOS 6. “We screwed up and we are all working to correct that,” Cook said. Earlier, Apple already apologized for the application, which has been criticized for incorrect cards.
In response to the news that Apple will move production to the US, Foxconn has indicated that it wants to open factories in the United States. “We want to do more in the United States because companies want more work done there,” said a Foxconn spokesperson told Bloomberg news agency. He declined to comment on specific plans. Apple has many products manufactured at Foxconn factories in Asia, but the working conditions in those factories have been criticized.