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Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini?

Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

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> Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini?

Because the video is of the workers in that specific factory, and they’ll only start producing the Mac mini there later in the year. It’s in the title. You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet.

True you can't, but that's never stopped anyone from pretending (for example, trailers for live events).

> You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet.

I have seen exactly that, thanks to AI...

You have not. If it was generated by AI, it was not real video. AI was the reason I added the word in there.

Fair point. My post was actually a joke.

They're assembling linux boxes that run their cloud.

> You can’t show real video of something which hasn’t happened yet.

We're going to have to teach our children this concept about discerning the AI slop their grandparents flood Facebook with :')

Interestingly, these exact letters appear to have been removed in the photo after the first two paragraphs: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2026/02/apple-accelera...

EDIT: a screenshot from the video: https://imgur.com/a/X3t4crC

Apple PR did what they could with the art they had available and the need to pander to a gov't administration, but weren't inspired to do it more genuinely?

"Think Different" -> "Think Indifferent"

Well, they’re dealing with an administration indifferent to thinking. Everything is emotional.

Also what is the point of hair cover if half of hair is hanging outside it.

Crazy propaganda!

I assume Foxconn, etc., have a lot of Chinese and Taiwanese workers on site to help bootup the facilities. But Apple's Houston facility is a real place: https://www.google.com/maps/place/8702+Fairbanks+North+Houst...

Foxconn bought it last year: https://communityimpact.com/houston/cy-fair-jersey-village/d...

It's the same situation as the Hyundai battery plant in Georgia last year. The foreign experts come to the US to teach us modern manufacturing. It's more accurate to describe it as Foxconn outsourcing to the US (for tax reasons), not Apple bringing manufacturing back home.

That's... amusing.

It's in the post: "In Houston, workers assemble advanced AI servers, including logic boards produced onsite, which are then used in Apple data centers in the U.S."

I'm curious what "logic board production" really means. My suspicion is it means "soldered a thing onto a motherboard" where all the individual pieces were shipped from Asia and the soldering is done by robots.

Any modern circuit board is fully assembled by robotic equipment. It really isn't possible for humans to reliably assemble something like the PCB in your phone: things are just too small. A large pick-and-place robot can do it very quickly.

Are you suggesting Apple is engaged in a massive subterfuge where they imported Black and Hispanic actors and hung a US and Texas flag on the wall in a Chinese factory as a staged photo op? Maybe the factory is really a sound stage.

How would you take a video of something that has yet to happen?

Ask AI.

They only have Siri.

Same difference?

Oh, if only that were true...and that's the joke.

I must be the dummy, as far as I can tell it is in fact true.

I didn’t say it was a good joke.

First time I've cracked a smile all day, thanks for that. :)

My guess would be that they're building Apple internal hardware as a precursor? So that Apple can be the test customer?

Mac Mini's have had a following for a long time.

Increasing for sure with different uses and possibilities.

> “We began shipping advanced AI servers from Houston ahead of schedule, and we’re excited to accelerate that work even further.”

In the second paragraph it says they’re producing advanced AI servers.

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