All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)
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All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990)
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#2Here's a low quality video of the factory from back in the day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfUKEu7sJ0 (The copy of the video is low quality that is, the original production values were excellent)
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#3I have a NeXT cube from the 1990s. It is one of the best built products in terms of build quality, I have ever seen.
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#4"In Mr. Jobs's view, the factory testifies to the fact that the United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer when it sets its mind to the task."
I suppose he has changed his position?
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#5"In Mr. Jobs's view, the factory testifies to the fact that the United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer when it sets its mind to the task." I suppose he has changed his position?
Manufacturing in the US has never been better. It's the number of people needed to manufacture stuff in the US that's been declining.
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#6"In Mr. Jobs's view, the factory testifies to the fact that the United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer when it sets its mind to the task." I suppose he has changed his position?
Manufacturing in the US has never been better. It's the number of people needed to manufacture stuff in the US that's been declining.
Due to wage/cost inflation in China and the coming rise of the Yuan (along with the weakness of the dollar), the US is about to become the cheapest place for high end manufacturing in the world.
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#7"In Mr. Jobs's view, the factory testifies to the fact that the United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer when it sets its mind to the task." I suppose he has changed his position?
Manufacturing in the US has never been better. It's the number of people needed to manufacture stuff in the US that's been declining.
Well, that could be due a convergence between automation and labor-intensive manufacturing (which can't be automated easily) moving overseas to fine a cheaper work force.
Also, I think the parent post was referring to the fact that Steve Jobs is now CEO of Apple which IIRC does most of their manufacturing overseas (SE Asia). If SJ still believed that quote, then he would have been trying to 'bring it home' so to speak.
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#8"Start-up" company
"Steven P." Jobs
"United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer"
So, what other items become amusingly ironic thanks to the lens of retrospect?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Manufacturing in the US has never been better. It's the number of people needed to manufacture stuff in the US that's been declining.
Due to wage/cost inflation in China and the coming rise of the Yuan (along with the weakness of the dollar), the US is about to become the cheapest place for high end manufacturing in the world.
Plus IP and counterfeit/security issues, communications issues, and such. Provided I didn't need to be colocated with Chinese parts suppliers, and that my production process wasn't dirty enough to have major environmental issues in the US, the US seems like a top choice.
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#10The most interesting part of that article was that they produce prototype boards on the same assembly line as production. No waiting for boards to come in. If they want a board made simply queue it and it's done.
They were agile before it was cool to be agile.
EDIT: Also, I had a NeXT Cube and NeXT Turbostation with laser printer. They were fantastic. We've barely budged the needle since then.