苹果公司到中国制造是被Compaq HP Dell 逼的，市场经济

Apple was late to China.

In a bid to lower costs, some of the biggest American technology companies, including Compaq, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, began dismantling their domestic manufacturing in the 1980s and moving work overseas, largely to Asia. Not Apple. The company’s co-founder, Steven P. Jobs, believed that software and hardware development had to be closely integrated.

 

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By The New York Times 

Rather than close plants, Apple decided to build them — in Colorado, Texas and California. Apple would maintain some of them long after Mr. Jobs left the company in 1985. The plants were highly automated, with the walls painted white, just as Mr. Jobs liked them, and they were promoted as a symbol of American ingenuity.

“This is a machine that is made in America,” Mr. Jobs trumpeted in 1984, after Apple opened a manufacturing facility in California to produce the Macintosh personal computer.

Finances forced Apple to change course. As Mac sales plummeted and inventories began to bulge in the mid-1990s, Apple had to embrace outsourcing, something with which it had only just experimented. After Mr. Jobs returned to the company in 1997, he turned to his new operations chief, Mr. Cook, who had recently joined from Compaq, to figure out how.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/technology/apple-iphone-china-foxconn.html?_r=0

所有跟帖： 

• They all need to be back! -sun2015sun- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/29/2016 postreply 12:20:05

• Compaq HP Dell 是被台湾PC逼的 -fourwaves- ♂ (98 bytes) () 12/29/2016 postreply 12:22:31

• 不是逼，而是经济规律。生产同一件产品，那里成本低，生产就往哪里跑。这就是经济规律。 -我不信邪- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/29/2016 postreply 12:34:23

• 还有产品品质，见我上面的评论 -fourwaves- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/29/2016 postreply 12:49:44

• Thx -我不信邪- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/29/2016 postreply 13:17:46