{"id":69455,"date":"2018-12-16T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/12\/16\/steve-jobs-wanted-ultra-optimized-us-manufacturing-apple-vets-say"},"modified":"2018-12-16T23:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T23:50:02","slug":"steve-jobs-wanted-ultra-optimized-us-manufacturing-apple-vets-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/16\/steve-jobs-wanted-ultra-optimized-us-manufacturing-apple-vets-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs wanted ultra-optimized US manufacturing, Apple vets say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- font size selector, BEGIN --> <span class=\"cfix\">\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#fd8f9b94939a9c8ebd9a909c9491d39e9290\">Roger Fingas<\/a> <br \/><span class=\"gray\">Sunday, December 16, 2018, 03:50 pm PT (06:50 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><span class=\"article-leader\">Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was, for a time, deadset on U.S.-based manufacturing of computers, an effort which collapsed after just eight years.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/steve-jobs-wanted-ultra-optimized-us-manufacturing-apple-vets-say.jpg\" alt=\"A factory in Milpitas, Calif., circa 1984.\" class=\"lazy\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/steve-jobs-wanted-ultra-optimized-us-manufacturing-apple-vets-say-1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\">A factory in Milpitas, Calif., circa 1984.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Jobs had &#8220;deep convictions&#8221; about Japanese-style manufacturing, according to Randy Battat, who told the <em>New York Times<\/em> about his time as an electrical engineer at Apple and helping to launch early laptops. The company established U.S.-based Macintosh manufacturing in the early 1980s, beginning with a heavily automated factory in Fremont, Calif. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Japanese were heralded as wizards of manufacturing,&#8221; Battat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/15\/business\/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html\">explained<\/a>. &#8220;The idea was to create a factory with just-in-time delivery of zero-defect parts. It wasn&#8217;t great for business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact the result was &#8220;really shameful&#8221; and slipshod, said Jean-Louis Gassee, a French office automation specialist who became president of Apple&#8217;s product division in 1988, well after Jobs&#8217; departure. He blamed the issue at least in part on overall deficiencies in U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a manufacturing culture,&#8221; Gassee complained, &#8220;meaning the substrate, the schooling, the apprentices, the subcontractors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump and others have urged companies like Apple to <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/18\/04\/26\/tim-cook-was-helpful-and-promised-jobs-factories-in-meeting-white-house-says\">bring manufacturing back to the U.S.<\/a> Decades of corporate offshoring have drained the country of its capabilities in that area however, and higher labor, safety, and environmental standards would likely increase Apple&#8217;s expenses and already high pricetags. The company has nevertheless done some U.S. manufacturing in the post-Jobs era, namely building the cylindrical Mac Pro in a factory in Austin.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By Roger Fingas Sunday, December 16, 2018, 03:50 pm PT (06:50 pm ET) Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was, for a time, deadset on U.S.-based manufacturing of computers, an effort which collapsed after just eight years. A factory in Milpitas, Calif., circa 1984. 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