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Comment by julienreszka | Hacker News Reader

I don't understand why Apple is still considered an American company today

About 80,000 of 130K worldwide employees are US-based, including the vast majority of upper management, design, and engineering. The fact that Apple doesn't do much of its own manufacturing nowadays is irrelevant to the location of the company.

https://www.apple.com/job-creation/

While employment is a good argument for company's locus, it's definitely not irrelevant for a company selling physical products where those are manufactured.

In fact, it matters so much that most western countries require the country of origin to be stapled onto the product.

> In fact, it matters so much that most western countries require the country of origin to be stapled onto the product.

AFAIK, country of origin labels aren't required in the EU, although there are efforts to change that.

Interesting. They originated in the 1880s in the UK (still part of the E.U.) in the hope that when people saw that goos were coming from Germany or France they’d reject them.

And if you look at Apple hardware, it often says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China".

I'd argue that the US got the better end of the value chain in this. Of course, it's possible for a company to outsource themselves out of business (cf Dell, which came quite close), but Apple does not seem to be on that trajectory.

Please finish your thought. What should it be considered?

Not only an American company but a Californian company.

(Apple isn't registered in Delaware.)

Making all the chips in Texas.

Didn't apple re-register in Delaware after orginally registering in California?

California was given in the most recent annual report.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193170...

iOS, macOS, iCloud, the App Store, iTunes are made 100% in the US.

This depends on your definition of "made" but given the large amount of OSS in Apple software, I would disagree.

Yes, because it's a multinational.

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