Apple allegedly deepening partnership with Foxconn to facilitate China, Indonesia expansion efforts.
Apple is turning to manufacturing partner Foxconn to facilitate efforts to expand both research centers and business further into Southeast Asia, and open up facilities in China and Indonesia, according to recent reports.
Foxconn has been manufacturing for Apple for over a decade. While Apple's Indonesian presence is somewhat limited at the moment, Foxconn has been in Indonesia for several years according to Chinese language journal Economic Daily News talking about the manufacturer's assistance to Apple.
Not clear is what assistance Foxconn may specifically give Apple, beyond access to already-forged business arrangements with local suppliers and businesses.
In late November, Indonesian Communication and Information Minister H.E. Rudiantara said that the country's Communication and Informatics Ministry was "finalizing the plan" for an Apple-led research center in Jakarta. Apple has reportedly already selected a few locations in the country for the center.
Earlier in the year, Chinese media reported that Apple is launching its first research and development center, located in technology incubation area Zhongguancun Science Park, Beijing. According to reports on the matter, the center has a budget of about $15 million, with a long-term expenditure goal of $45 million over the next few years. The center is allegedly seeking to hire around 500 workers, with no particular focus beyond Apple products and software.
Foxconn has been manufacturing for Apple for over a decade. While Apple's Indonesian presence is somewhat limited at the moment, Foxconn has been in Indonesia for several years according to Chinese language journal Economic Daily News talking about the manufacturer's assistance to Apple.
Not clear is what assistance Foxconn may specifically give Apple, beyond access to already-forged business arrangements with local suppliers and businesses.
In late November, Indonesian Communication and Information Minister H.E. Rudiantara said that the country's Communication and Informatics Ministry was "finalizing the plan" for an Apple-led research center in Jakarta. Apple has reportedly already selected a few locations in the country for the center.
Earlier in the year, Chinese media reported that Apple is launching its first research and development center, located in technology incubation area Zhongguancun Science Park, Beijing. According to reports on the matter, the center has a budget of about $15 million, with a long-term expenditure goal of $45 million over the next few years. The center is allegedly seeking to hire around 500 workers, with no particular focus beyond Apple products and software.
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Yet, it's hard to ignore a 250M people country... You got to bite the bullet if you want to expand there.
As for Apple and manufacturing, if phones that were sold there were from the US, they'd be ridiculously expensive for people there compared to the competition, who would be built in China or in the region. So, this is a non starter.
Trump doesn't realize how little of Apple's products money is actually used for "manufacturing" right now.
Most of Apple's US revenues goes back to US taxpayers and most of its money is spent in the US too.
Trump seems to be thinking of Apple as a 1920s car manufacturer...
Do you have Mystics in Bali?
So long as the only politicians getting voted into government offices are republicans and democrats, it'll stay this way. Neither party cares much for education (the Republican Party seems to be against fact, and the democrat party doesn't know there's a critical need to totally replace the Prussian-industrial public education model that's been entrenched since the 1800s, which was never a good system and is utterly useless today in a nation of near zero industry).
Because pathological capitalism has ensured the trap of "profit over national loyalty". The corporations actively CHOSE to move industry out of the USA for profit. Wall Street and public ownership are not patriotic or pro-society entities. They're selfish, wealth-hoarding entities. Every corporation that goes public suffers the same fate eventually: loss of connection to the customers, the employees, the product, and the mission of making a living by providing something of worth. They go on because the system is shaped to endure them by socializing the losses and privatizing the gains.
We have an unsustainable economic architecture and the people who are comfortable in it are fewer every decade, but also more powerful and bonded to governance. So long as the economy can continue to be parasitic across the planet, it will look successful. There's an inevitable failure point when systems only exist to justify themselves.
Again: It's not about the cost of the product. It's about the profit margins. It was only ever about the profit margins. It's the human instinct toward greed, and the USA's culture of callous disregard and antisocial individualism promoting and glorifying it.
The GOP has had control of most of the US since 1968 at all levels of government with the Dems having to spend half their own terms picking up their shit on the ground and catering to special white men snow flakes so they won't vote for a GOP that's crapped down their throat for 40 years straight and told them all their ills come from women, blacks, immigrants of various shades of brown, "stealing" their jobs.
Maybe if the dems didn't have to put out fires when they get into power they'd be more time to actually do something.
Funny how we got essentially the same education system in Canada yet get much better grades in tests than in the US. There are many other factors at work down there...
The dems are barely able to salvage the current system from ruin; GOP has basically pounded education to oblivion in all states they controlled, and seems their going to do the same thing nationally.
Teacher pay in the US is woeful and embarrassing. How can someone say a system has failed when people have not really invested in it at all.
1) Ivy League
2) Trump University
With 1) their class rings, sorority and frat memberships ensure that the top jobs go to those who are members of the 'club'.
2) made out that people who were not members of that club could become a member by spending loads of money. A typical get rich quick scheme that has been around in the US since the days of the travelling snake oil salesmen.
President Trump is an temporary honorary member of the 'club' by virtue of the assets (paper only) that he holds. He'd never be part of their cabal otherwise. Parts of it will see him as an outsider no matter what he does including licking their boots clean.
Obama was never a member.
The only thing he could really do to hurt Apple would be high tarrif and the economic damage too the US economy of that would be astronomical (because most US companies these days have multinational highly integrated supply chains).
No way Cook builds a factory in the rust belt (why the frack would he do that!), if they build something it will be a robot factory in California or even Texas.
There is a reason companies left the rust belt and high tech companies are not there, and those reasons don't magically go away.
Considering most of the rust belt is already controlled by GOP governors (and even Pensylvania was controlled by the GOP gov until recently), it is highly ironic they blame the dems for their plight.
In the House it's been a dead even split with Dems and Republicans each controlling it 9 of the last 18 Congressional terms. Since you mentioned the '60's here's a visual that makes it easier to see who was in control each of the years. It might not be exactly as you remembered it.
http://wiredpen.com/resources/political-commentary-and-analysis/a-visual-guide-balance-of-power-congress-presidency/
But I can hear you saying "Yeah, but what about the States!" Here's another list for that and an easy to understand ones too. Sure looks like Democrats were in control nationwide for a number of those years.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.ncsl.org/documents/statevote/legiscontrol_1978_1988.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.ncsl.org/documents/statevote/legiscontrol_1990_2000.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.ncsl.org/documents/statevote/legiscontrol_2002_2014.pdf
Pinning all the blame for all the ills of the US on the Republicans looks bogus. Both parties have a share of it.