Mac production line uses Windows?

Oops! Tim Cook tweets photo of Mac production line running Windows

 

Macs are made in America?

Dell used to have an assemble line in Winston-Salem, but I think they shut it down.

 

Yes: :

 

Innovation drives you to keep manufacturing close so you can make quick changes, and also so you can prevent piracy of intellectual property. Cheap labor is more important when the business is large numbers of low end identical products where revisions are periodc and mostly cosmetic.

(Quote) "Dell and HP both snored through the whole wireless smart device revolution of the last decade and hitched their wagons to the PC market (which is dying). It would not have mattered whether or not they kept their PC supply chains in house or not. "

http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmo...cing-bad-acquisitions-and-lack-of-innovation/

One of HP's acquisitions was COMPAQ, which was once innovative. The new AMC series "Halt and Catch Fire" is reportedly a fictional retelling of the COMPAQ story.

http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/halt-and-catch-fire-amc-compaq/

 

BIG OOPS!! Good read Doc. I sent the link to a mate of mine who is Apple through and through.
antik, I'm happy with my HP 1000 but I was less than impressed with the 2 Compaq's I tried earlier. I couldn't keep the Compaq Presario 1700 cool enough to operate for more than ½ hour if I was lucky. I renewed the fan and cleaned it so often it ended up going to the Salvation Army store in the end.
Sometimes an acquisition and burial is best all round. Cheers Neil.

 

How you feel about COMPAQ depends upon which period in its history you experienced.

Compaq was founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto. Each invested $1,000 to form the company. In 1983 the company shipped 53,000 portable PCs for more than $111 million in revenues at the time the most by any first-year company in U.S. business history. It became a Fortune 500 company in 1986. In 1987, it reached $1 billion in annual sales.

The company sought out older engineers. In late 1982, the company’s technical staff averaged 15 years of experience. Dell and Gateway used direct marketing while Compaq sold through independent retailers and was renowned for never competing with its thousands of loyal computer dealers and resellers.

During the 1980s under Canion's direction Compaq focused on engineering, research, and quality control, producing high-end high-performance machines with high profit margins that allowed Compaq to continue investing in engineering and next-generation technology. They had a close relationship with Intel and were always the first to come out with each new generation of Intel processors.

Murto left in 1987. Canion and Harris were forced out in 1991. By 1993 COMPAQ was the number one supplier of portable computers in America; and in 1995 it passed IBM to become the biggest seller of PCs worldwide, but then came a long decline marked by poor decisions, expensive acquisitions and growing competition culminating in being swallowed up by HP in 2002.