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Trump Says Apple's Tim Cook Has Promised Him He'd Build Three US Factories: 'Big, Big, Big' (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the major-development dept.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Apple CEO Tim Cook has committed to build three big manufacturing plants in the U.S., a surprising statement that would help fulfill his administration's economic goal of reviving American manufacturing. From a report: Apple CEO Tim Cook called Trump to share that the iPhone-maker would do more manufacturing domestically, Trump told WSJ. "I spoke to [Mr. Cook], he's promised me three big plants -- big, big, big," Trump was quoted as saying. Apple has already said that it would start a $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs in the United States. With its wide network of developers, Apple has already created two million jobs in the United States, according to Cook.

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  1. Re:How about bringing in the off shore cash pile? by imgod2u · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

    And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.

    Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on."

    We had one. She lost.

  2. Re:grain of salt by supremebob · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unfortunately, most of the jobs that Apple actually "created" in the US recently are low paying retail and support jobs at their Apple Store locations. The number of new hardware and software Engineers that Apple hired are probably a small percentage of the real number.

  3. Re:grain of salt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And destroy the country...so you can become a billionaire who thinks slavery is flexible factory workers and has no idea what the difference is.

    Why should he/she care?

    You bullied then and are getting payback now.

    He/she was bullied then and is getting revenge now.

    Plus, getting rich at the expense of others is the very definition of success in the good old US, isn't it?

    Payback is a bitch, and so are you.

    Suck it up.

    (I am only partly joking. I leave is as an exercise for you to figure out which part it is. You will likely fail.)