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.

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 both the Amiga and, later, 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.