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Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label
sl4shd0rk writes "Among the much ballyhooed tech at Google I/O last week was the Google Nexus Q. Google made an effort to proudly point out the device was "Made in the USA" and even had it stamped on the back of it. A tear-down at ifixit.com however, reveals the guts of the thing are mostly manufactured overseas at the expected locations (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, et al). Wired also posted a tear-down in which they reveal a die-casting shop in Wisconsin is the source of the zinc housing, but certainly not the entire device as some news sources reported. It's great that Google decided to utilize the struggling U.S. manufacturing sector for this, but claiming the device is USA made, and being blatantly vague about its origins is quite misleading." How struggling the U.S. manufacturing sector is depends on who you ask and how you measure, remember.
Slashdot should really consider hiring an editor.
They should put "Designed by Google in California."
Yes, even with shit that's made in China you can claim the oil required for the plastics came from Iran or wherever the fuck.
Quite obviously the heavy elements in the chemical compounds were not created by fusing lighter elements in a lab in Mountain View. Those lying bastards, "made in the USA" my ass. More like "made in the collapse of RX J185635-3754."
perl -e "eval pack(q{H*},join q{},qw{70 72696e74207061636b28717b482a7d2c717b343 637323635363534323533343430617d293b})"
Maybe the "Made in the USA" on the label just meant the label itself.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
LOL. Yeah, right. "Finland"? Dude if you're going to make up fake placenames, make them a little more believable. Pfft, "Finland" indeed.