Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America (opens in new tab)

I’ll take the more positive angle that i appreciate sing a more diversified supply chain, no matter how small the change. You can’t lift and shift production off the entire widget overnight.

Start with the less consequential components to get the flywheel running and continue adding more production. Little manufacturing successes have the ability to snowball into bigger ones.

This article would be so much better if the author wasn’t so overt with their biases. This one article has more swipes than Tinder, which makes it hard to read.

The irony is that on-shoring high-end manufacturing would be a good thing. But the approach of "do it right now, or I'll put tariffs on your product(s)" is not the way to get any lasting change. It's a way to get the performative changes we're seeing, that will drift right back offshore when this administration mercifully ends.

I can’t tell if this article is whining that Apple is working with partners to make too many parts in America or whining that Apple isn’t making enough parts in America.

The comments on El Reg's article are... not the types of comment that will further the discussion of onshoring manufacturing.

Reality is that people in Western countries need TSMC to make high end chips outside of Taiwan, because we’ll all be screwed if China decides to invade Taiwan. This has nothing to do with how you feel about Trump. It’s just the cold hard facts.

If you want stable access to technology in the future, you should be demanding secondary sources of high end chips, because none of us want to die fighting China in a war a few hundred miles off China’s coast line and 5,000-6,000 miles from most western countries (excluding Japan/Korea).