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Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by mattnewton »

nessbot wrote: post #45
d--b wrote: post #38

My wild guess is that Cook cut a deal with the IRS so that they build in the US, but get tax benefits other companies don't get, so that it looks good on the administration - like the tariffs are working - and still benefits Apple. I don't think Apple wouldn't find a cheaper place to manufacture Macs than the US. The US is literally the most expensive place to build. That, or the Mac Minis are 100% asembled by robots…

Can one "cut a deal" with the IRS without it ending up in legislation (i.e. tax law)?

Legally no, but in practice the president has been trying to assert the power to unilaterally levy taxes, even in spite of the supreme court ruling that you need the legislature to pass a tax. People still paid the tariffs. I would be extremely suprised if that's the only place this admin is trying to tax by fiat, and tax policy enforcemetn is far less visible than consumer tariffs.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by amelius »

arcfour wrote: post #61
evanjrowley wrote: post #4

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

How would you take a video of something that has yet to happen?

Ask AI.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by locusofself »

pama wrote: post #69

Mac minis are sold out in NYC these days because everyone gets them to try out openclaw. Even if this move by Apple is unrelated to the recent demand, it certainly was timed right for the policy and market makers.

why were mac minis so popular for this compared to any other machine, cloud VPS or local VM?

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by TulliusCicero »

general_reveal wrote: post #63

Was it such a sin that our electronics were made in the East? Was the west truly deprived and the east really abused? It’s nearly the end of of our lifetime (+-100 years is a margin of error), so the fact for our lifetimes is that our electronics got made there. What is the final judgement about this?

"Sin" is the wrong framing, but outsourcing most of your capability to actually make stuff can definitely cause problems for a country.

For example, on a military level, the US is concerned about how rapidly China is catching up in naval capacity, China is building new warships far faster than the US can. And it's hard not to notice that China's overall shipbuilding capacity is more than 200x higher than America's.

The US has a lot of pride over having been "the arsenal of democracy" in WW2, and it's well known that a huge part of why the US was effective in that war was sheer mass: the US simply made much more war 'stuff' than any other combatant. But if the US was to get in a shooting war with China today, it would likely be China that would enjoy an advantage in production scale, with the US trying to make do with fewer vehicles and munitions.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by llmslave »

locusofself wrote: post #73
pama wrote: post #69

Mac minis are sold out in NYC these days because everyone gets them to try out openclaw. Even if this move by Apple is unrelated to the recent demand, it certainly was timed right for the policy and market makers.

why were mac minis so popular for this compared to any other machine, cloud VPS or local VM?

so you can use the full operating system

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by mirekrusin »

latexr wrote: post #50
evanjrowley wrote: post #4

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

> Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini? Because the video is of the workers in that specific factory, and they’ll only start producing the Mac mini there later in the year. It’s in the title. You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet.

They're assembling linux boxes that run their cloud.

Re: Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston

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Post by amelius »

locusofself wrote: post #73
pama wrote: post #69

Mac minis are sold out in NYC these days because everyone gets them to try out openclaw. Even if this move by Apple is unrelated to the recent demand, it certainly was timed right for the policy and market makers.

why were mac minis so popular for this compared to any other machine, cloud VPS or local VM?

Because these people have Apple IDs, and they need a machine that can access their various accounts.
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