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gatorguy said:

rob53 said:

Why in Texas? People thought Apple's products were getting too expensive, just wait for products coming out of Texas. They will break everyone's budget. Who in Texas will actually work at this manufacturing facility? Will everything be automated? Where will the people for these 20K come from, India? Who's going to build the facility? Not the hardest workers from south of the border. trump made sure of that.

Final assembly will be in Texas, and only for servers that Apple is using in their own facilities. All the pieces will still be imported, already matched and boards fully assembled, just needing to be put in the shells. In actuality, probably nothing changes from what Apple was already doing and planning. But Trump likes his boasting moments and Apple is giving him one he'll be allowed to take credit for. 

Apple will continue to make the bulk of what it sells — iPhones, iPads and Macs — in Asia. Its overseas manufacturing footprint has been a flashpoint with Mr. Trump since before he was first elected president in 2016. For years, he has called on Apple “start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries.”

As the first Trump administration ratcheted up tariffs on China in 2019, Apple began shifting some of its manufacturing to Vietnam, India and other Asian countries. But it didn’t bring any of that production back to the United States.

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The investment represents $39 billion in additional spending annually above what Apple promised to spend on employees and suppliers in the United States in 2021, [Gene Munster, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management] said. It is in line with Apple’s average annual increase in U.S. investment to support its growth since 2017. And the 20,000 jobs that Apple said it would add is in line with the number of people that it would hire over a four-year span in the United States, as well.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

I am from India and I don't have much knowledge on US politics. ...