They're cursory gestures at best, and stark condemnations of US manufacturing capacity at worst. The Mac Mini and Mac Pro are not complex or dense electronics in the slightest. They're carrier enclosures for TSMC technology, you could probably make them in Siberia if you wanted to.

The hard part is manufacturing Apple's high-volume hardware, namely the iPhone. That is not anywhere close to being onshored, and Apple seemingly has no interest in even attempting it if Indian labor is still an option.

As Tim Cook put it: "In the US, you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields..."

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dmix 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So Tim said it's not yet practical so they aren't doing it? And instead of moving what they can?

The article mentions they are opening a manufacturing academy to train a future generation of Americans to build manufacturing capability.

	▲	bigyabai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You have to ask yourself, why does America beg Apple to onshore in the first place? Why is Apple offshoring things that can be done in the US? It doesn't matter how many manufacturing experts America trains anymore. We lost this race; China has globally-competitive manufacturing, and the US doesn't. Apple doesn't want to willingly pay for American labor today, and a decade of manufacturing graduates will probably only ease the blow when big corps are forced to onshore again.