CEO of Apple
Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL), Tim Cook said that the company will generate one its present
lines of Mac computers in the US next year.
In an interview with Bloomberg
Businessweek, Cook said that the company will spend
$100 million in 2013 to shift production of the line from China to the US.
Cook told Bloomberg
that Apple will be working with people and investing its money.
Apple did not
immediately return calls for comment on Thursday.
Apple, like most of the
consumer electronics companies, forges agreements with contract makers to
assemble its products abroad. However, the assembly is responsible for a
portion of the cost incurred in manufacturing a PC or a smartphone. Most of the
expenses are incurred in purchasing chips, as mentioned by Cook in his
interview with NBC.
The company and Foxconn
Technology Group have experienced serious criticism this year over working
conditions at Chinese facilities where Apple gadgets are assembled. The
attention required Foxconn to increase salaries.
Cook did not mention
which line of computers would be manufactured in the United States or in which
part of the country they would be made. However, he told Bloomberg that the
production would take into account more than just ultimate assembly. That
implies that preparing the cases and making the circuit boards could happen in
the US.
The easiest Macs to be
assembled here are the Mac Mini and Mac Pro desktop computers. They would
probably be simpler to separate from the Asian interface supply chain since
they are devoid of the built-in screens present in iMacs and MacBooks.
The US manufacturing
line is anticipated to stand for just a small piece of Apple’s entire
production, with sales of iPads and iPhones now dwarfing those computers.
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