From: Joost van de Griek (jvdg_at_jvdg.com)
Date: Thu Jun 09 2005 - 13:23:11 PDT
On 2005-06-09 15:17, MKow1234_at_aol.com wrote:
> Didn't IBM sell the hardware-building portion of their business to the Chinese
> recently? Maybe Jobs wants to help keep a few more (ahem) jobs in the US?
IBM didn't "sell their hardware business". They sold their PC division.
If Apple are so interested in keeping jobs in the US, they could start by
producing their PPC machines in the US, instead of abroad, as they do now
and have done for years.
> I'm not sure how much Intel work is done domestically,
Very little. Just look at the Pentium chips you see for sale. "Made in
Malaysia", "Made in Phillipines", "Made in [whatever]".
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