Apple Spent $60B on 9,000 American Suppliers in 2018, Supporting 450,000 Jobs (macrumors.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Well timed with a report from The New York Times today that explained why Apple is unlikely to manufacture more of its products in the United States, Apple has published a press release highlighting how several components it uses are manufactured by U.S. suppliers such as Finisar, Corning, and Broadcom. Apple says it spent $60 billion with 9,000 American component suppliers and companies in 2018, an increase of more than 10 percent from the year before. Apple says this spending supports more than 450,000 jobs in the United States.

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Re:Apple PR Success

[kamapuaa]

You break the articles down wrong. Neither was directly about how great Apple is for the economy. The 1st was: "it's difficult for Apple to manufacture in the US, and here's why." It was information, rather than argumentative. Apple released a press statement: "actually we do a lot of manufavcturing in the US."

Obviously what happened is that Apple was interviewed for the NY Times article, knew it was coming out, and released their own press statement to counteract the negative implications.