They are really talking about the final assembly step; the chip plants are in Asia, as are the companies they buy displays from.

It’s largely cosmetic. But having the shame to know how bad the optics are is an important first step I guess.

The 1%ers and their proxies, the corporations, want to “repatriate” x-illion$ without being forced to disgorge the unpaid tax dollars they hold as they are prepared for a tidal wave buy up of the assets they positioned for a fire sale (Catherine Austin Fitts, Winter 2012). Apple, like the rest, should pay up and not be allowed to tax haven hop without a significant financial cost as money is the only thing that gets their attention. it would be great to put them out of business with a worker owned cooperative if the constellation of issues re the toxic rare earths can be solved (see “Your Smartphone’s Dirty, Radioactive Secret,” MotherJones.Com, by Kiera Butler, Nov./Dec. 2012 Issue).

“it was Cook who moved Apple production to China a decade ago.”

This means that American wages have been intentionally depressed so much over the last 10 years that it is now cost effective to pay Americans the same crap-wages they do in China. Apple would be basically saving the shipping costs from China to the USA.

I watched the movie the Campaign (with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis). The Motch Brothers (aka the Koch brothers) want a labor law waiver to bring chinese laborers (earnings 50 cents per hour) to North Carolina. The widgets would be made under the same laws as China (i.e. no minimum wage, no environmental regulation enforcement, no worker safety concerns).

I find that the mega-corporations seem to behave more like the outrageous movie portrayals than anything else.

What is the difference, as much as I like Apple and have Apple products, they are incorporated in Nevada which means they pay no taxes.

I saw that Apple stock took a beating yesterday and was remarked upon on some financial report I saw. I just got a new Mac and told them I really was troubled by their production/labor issues and struggled with my decision. . .I know it is pathetic to buy a computer from them and complain about the issues, but I hope they are hearing this from a lot of people.

Thanks for the info, Jane, hitting the road now.

I guess it shows some acknowledgement that US citizens are awakening from their deep deep slumbers & beginning to get a glimmer of a notion of how much we’ve been ripped off by these filthy greedy bastards.

Not much to crow about here, though. It’s something but, as stated, mainly cosmetic.

Thanks for the update.

The Motch Brothers (aka the Koch brothers) want a labor law waiver to bring chinese laborers (earnings 50 cents per hour) to North Carolina.

They’re too late, it’s already there: Unicor:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/unicor-prison-labor_n_1778765.html

Federal govt’s 18th biggest contractor.

How do you know it’s the iMac model?

Cook said he believes the U.S. education system is failing to produce enough people with the skills needed for modern manufacturing processes.

Really. Macs were originally produced in the Bay Area, albeit back when California was tops in public education. Is he really claiming Chinese peasants show up at Foxconn et al with modern manufacturing skills greater than those that could be found in the American labor pool?

Yet more evidence that he’s lying out his ass. It’s all about the sky-high profit margins, much if not most of which go to Cook and his buddies at the top.