Excellent news! ~ Sooz

Apple onshores jobs and announces Silicon Valley factory
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, January 25, 2013 16:08 EST

Apple on Friday listed a Silicon Valley facility as a location where the California company’s Macintosh computers are assembled.

The addition to Apple’s list of final assembly plants came less than two months after chief executive Tim Cook vowed to shift some computer manufacturing from China to the United States to catalyze domestic high-tech production.

A Quanta Computer Inc. operation in Fremont, California, not far from where Apple got its start, joined a roster of “final assembly facilities” heavily weighted with plants in China.

Taiwan-based Quanta was listed as operating Macintosh computer and iPod MP3 player assembly plants in China.

Cook, in a pair of interviews given in December, said one line of Mac computers will be made exclusively in the United States, but did not say which one.

Asked why Apple would not move out of China entirely and manufacture everything in the United States, Cook told NBC, “It’s not so much about price, it’s about the skills.”

Cook also told the broadcaster that he hopes the new project will help spur other US firms to bring manufacturing back home.

“The consumer electronics world was really never here,” he said. “It’s a matter of starting it here.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/25/apple-onshores-jobs-and-announces-silicon-valley-factory/

wtf is Cook talking about? the PC was BORN in Silicon Valley. i am not sure about the skills statement either.

he is absolutely full of shit.

Maybe wages here are slowly getting competitive with China's?

Could be a "quality" thing, too.

it is expensive doing business in China for a few reasons. none of them are labor related. the Chinese government insists on a minimum 51% stake in everything there. traffic and pollution are absolute hell. productivity is low. working conditions are poor. and if your primary market is stateside, transportation costs eat up a big share of the savings.

it is still cheaper to operate there. but it is not a slam dunk. particularly with automation.

The lack of environmental regulations is one of the biggest attractions for doing manufacturing business in China.

Since Canada has virtually wiped out its manufacturing in favor of a resource based economy, and is therefore unable to "offshore" jobs to China - the Canadian government has decided to duplicate China's environmental regulations (none) and import cheap Chinese labor starting in northern BC coal mines.