Tag: Steve Jobs

Manufacturing Away, Not Home

China – Not US – More Efficiently Producing iPhones

Although there has been talk about Chinese jobs returning to the United States of America due to the fact that sending them there is no longer proving to be such a money-saver, when it comes to the manufacture of iPhones, it seems this is not the case.

While still working on the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was incredibly demanding and it seemed his desires could only be met in China, not America.  He wanted a perfect glass screen to be developed in as little time as six weeks.  The Chinese didn’t let Jobs down.  Within 96 hours, its facility employing 8,000 workers putting in 12 hour-days had produced over 10,000 iPhones.  No American plant would be able to achieve that.

So, unlike other manufacturing plants, it seems that Apple will not be moving its operations to America any time soon.  If it did, figures show that it could take up to nine months to find the close to 9,000 industrial engineers to produce the iPhone in America.  In China it would take just 15 days.  The figures thus speak for themselves.

Steve Jobs Mourned By Hollywood and Tech Industries

Hollywood and the tech industry are mourning the loss of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Mr. Jobs died at 56 from pancreatic cancer, having resigned from his position as CEO only months before. Throughout his life, Jobs challenged conventional computing and the digital world, creating original and unsurpassed devices like the iPod, iPad and iPhone.

Jobs bought George Lucas’s animation business and renamed it Pixar, creating some of the most-loved children’s films of the generation and pushing the limits of digital animation. Having befriended Michael Eisner’s successor Robert Iger, Jobs also brought movies and video clips to the iTunes interface.