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Apple tried very hard to manufacture their products in the US and nearly went broke. They transitioned to manufacturing overseas because they needed to be competitive to survive. Right now this means China but with the cost of doing business there going up most of this production is likely to move to Vietnam.


Broke in terms of labor or material costs?

Or could Americans just not manufacture Apple products?


Consumers demand low prices. Even with lots of automation manufacture in the US made both Apple Macs and NeXT cubes impractically expensive.




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