Are you saying that Apple invented outsourcing? Tell that to Detroit and the car companies! Tell that to literally every manufacturing industry in the world.
Early Apples used Motorola 68k chips. These were largely fabbed in the US, AFAIK.
After that, the PowerPC chips were also, I believe, mostly fabbed by IBM in the US.
Intel chips were fabbed primarily in the US for Apple.
So I guess the current "Apple Silicon" chips that are fabbed in Taiwan are the big departure...
Tim Cook, starting in the very late 90s, did reverse Steve Jobs' efforts to keep stuff local, and did increase manufacturing and assembly in China (and Taiwan and Japanese etc).
With regards to Commodore, I would think the surge in Intel x86 computers w/ DOS would have made a far bigger impact than anything Apple did.
I really don't think this criticism of Apple holds water.
So I found, in my basement, an Apple Quadra from 1993 that says simply "Assembled in U.S.A." (Still boots!) I haven't opened it up, but skimming parts list, many were manufactured in the US as well.
I found a B&W G3 PowerMAc from later in the 90s that says "Assembled in Singapore" (!)
From ~2000 on I see mostly "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."
There's no rational way to claim that Apple, of all companies, put Commodore out of business.
Assembled in USA. I can find one computer out of ~2 dozen from 40 years that use that terminology. (And after Commodore was basically dead.)
Googled IIgs, etc. to find their labels (I don't have any computers that go back that far). All the labels I could locate online say either "Made in Singapore" or "Assembled in Mexico" or similar.
Are you saying that Apple invented outsourcing? Tell that to Detroit and the car companies! Tell that to literally every manufacturing industry in the world.
Early Apples used Motorola 68k chips. These were largely fabbed in the US, AFAIK.
After that, the PowerPC chips were also, I believe, mostly fabbed by IBM in the US.
Intel chips were fabbed primarily in the US for Apple.
So I guess the current "Apple Silicon" chips that are fabbed in Taiwan are the big departure...
Tim Cook, starting in the very late 90s, did reverse Steve Jobs' efforts to keep stuff local, and did increase manufacturing and assembly in China (and Taiwan and Japanese etc).
With regards to Commodore, I would think the surge in Intel x86 computers w/ DOS would have made a far bigger impact than anything Apple did.
I really don't think this criticism of Apple holds water.
So I found, in my basement, an Apple Quadra from 1993 that says simply "Assembled in U.S.A." (Still boots!) I haven't opened it up, but skimming parts list, many were manufactured in the US as well.
I found a B&W G3 PowerMAc from later in the 90s that says "Assembled in Singapore" (!)
From ~2000 on I see mostly "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."
I don't see anything to your claim.
Check this:
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-really-lost-its-lead-in-the-80s-2012-12?op=1
There's no rational way to claim that Apple, of all companies, put Commodore out of business.
Assembled in USA. I can find one computer out of ~2 dozen from 40 years that use that terminology. (And after Commodore was basically dead.)
Googled IIgs, etc. to find their labels (I don't have any computers that go back that far). All the labels I could locate online say either "Made in Singapore" or "Assembled in Mexico" or similar.