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Comment by epolanski | Hacker News Reader

They have been saying this since almost a decade.

Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more...

Apple Manufacturing Academy opens in Detroit on August 19 — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/07/apple-manufacturing-a...

Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud — https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

They’re literally opening a new 20,000 square foot facility I Houston. So I’m not sure what your comment implies, but it takes time to build things like that.

Sure, they pledged 100B under Biden and 200 under trump..to produce a bunch of Mac minis.

Did you read the Press Release?

Yes

i guess he's wondering if they finally managed to secure a domestic screw producer or they're if importing them from China?

Houston is a net exporter of screw [0]. But in seriousness, Houston has domestic production of fasteners etc for oil and gas as well as NASA.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Screw

it's a reference to the last time Apple tried this in Austin, their production was throttled due to the inability of their screw supplier to meet demand.

https://mashable.com/article/apple-mac-pro-screw

They have made some machines in the us, like the Mac Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to...

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