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Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an editor at large at CNET News and a contributing reporter to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. His interest in things small began when living in Tokyo in a very small apartment for a very long time. Indeed, it would be a departure from Apple's policy of making virtually all of its marquee products in Asia. Apple has a long history of assembling products in the U.S. -- including assembly operations in California -- but that strategy ended many years ago when it off-shored assembly and manufacture of virtually all of its computer products to Asia. Long conveyor belts, if you will, and kits moving from worker to worker with specific assembly tasks, starting with a basic chassis of the computer and plugging in the various components to the end of the line. Then there will be a testing station and then a boxing station. It's not unlike the assembly work that's done in China, though some of the facilities in China may do a little bit more work on subsystem assembly. It's the same model we use at our facility in Monterrey, Mexico, which supports North America, and the same model we use in Europe. The "correct designation" under U.S law is "assembled in the U.S. with some foreign content," according to Lenovo.

We don’t have the detailed spec to indicate the kind of quality you can expect from those two cameras, but at the push of the shutter button on the top-left of the headset the cameras record photos or videos for an immersive 3D VR experience and 4K playback for each eye, complete with spatial audio for videos. At $3,499 you’re obviously not buying the Vision Pro just as a camera – recording and reliving moments in 3D is a bonus feature of this dual-chip mixed-reality headset – but will you really want to use the camera in the first place? There’s a camera on your face Take a moment to watch the Apple Vision Pro presentation above (starting at 1:36:00). It’s a strange image, isn’t it? And I don’t mean the scene being captured using the Vision Pro of the girls blowing bubbles, but rather the image of the smiling dad wearing the headset, which resembles a pair of ski goggles, to capture the moment. It’s a terrifying vision of future family life. Using what Apple calls eyesight, you can see the dad’s eyes in the headset lenses, and then a flash of light as he takes the picture. But those aren't actually his eyes – what we're seeing from the outside is actually an OLED display that can display the wearer's eyes in real time using the cameras inside the headset, while the display illuminates to make it clear when you're capturing a photo or video. The Apple Vision Pro packs 12 cameras in all: six external cameras (two forward facing, two downward and two side cameras), two TrueD...

Getty Images / WIRED Dressed in a sombre suit and tie, Apple CEO Tim Cook spent an afternoon in November 2019 showing US President Donald Trump around a large Texan manufacturing plant, where the tech giant plans to make its new MacBook Pro. At one point, Cook handed Trump a ceremonial silver plaque emblazoned with the words: “Mac Pro. Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in USA.” The visit was designed to showcase Apple’s commitment to American manufacturing. But behind it lay a much larger question hanging over the company’s future: what to do about the vast majority of its products that still carry the words “Assembled in China”? Such is China’s importance to Apple that, in normal times, this sales reversal would have been Cook’s biggest strategic headache. But these are not normal times, and US-China trade tensions present a still greater dilemma over the future of its celebrated China-based manufacturing process, even after an initial deal between the two countries was signed in January 2020. Apple’s supply chain is one of the company's greatest assets: a complex, intricate web that draws components from all around the world to Chinese factories, where they are put together by outsourcers such as Foxconn and Pegatron (both of which are Taiwanese companies that have factories in mainland China). Cook knows the system well, given he designed it during his time as right hand to founder Steve Jobs. “There's a confusion about China,” Cook said a couple of years ago a...

It wouldn’t take much for Apple Inc. to have U.S.-sold iPhones made outside China. Foxconn Technology Group, the primary assembler of the devices, said Tuesday that it has enough capacity to The question for Foxconn, Apple’s leadership, the U.S. administration and everyone else, though, is: What does “made” actually mean? This isn’t an esoteric question. As the technology and trade war escalates, billions of dollars hang on the answer. That it’s feasible to avoid a “Made in China” label appears to have come as a revelation to many. Let me give you an analogy: Chef A designs a croissant recipe, sources and measures the ingredients, mixes the flour, sugar, butter and eggs; Chef B kneads and rolls the dough; and Chef C folds the pastry and puts it into an oven at the correct temperature for the right time. So, who made the croissant? Apple has been steadfast in insisting that the iPhone is an American product. That’s not just marketing speak. Not only does it do the design, its U.S.-based team is in charge of sourcing all components, ensuring they all work together, and deciding the layout and assembly of the circuitry that goes inside. Foxconn is a master at production — kneading and rolling the dough — which means breaking manufacturing down into small, specific steps, and then replicating that process 200 million times per year. Foxconn also does the last step — folding the iPhone pastry and putting it into ovens. Since the “oven” is in China, iPhones get stamped with “Mad...

The computer has a mouse. A phone or tablet requires your thumb or a stylus. But Apple’s new Vision Pro? It just needs you. Controlled by your eyes, voice, and subtle hand movements, it's gonna change the way we interact with content, and each other. After much speculation about the new launch while packed inside Apple Park’s first in-house WWDC at the spaceship, Tim Cook finally showed off the long awaited augmented reality device. In short, Vision Pro is far better than everything else in its class (with a price worthy of that slot at $3,499) and it knocks Meta’s Apple’s Vision Pro will release in 2024. Apple Like most Apple products, the first thing you notice is the design. Its outward-facing screen that allows others to see an image of your eyes as if they were making eye contact with you already feels like the new standard for AR—all other models feel obsolete. This tech lets you go from a video call to watching a movie to interacting with someone else in the room without ever having to take the headset off. Apple dubs it “spacial computing”—as you become fully immersed in a space, you still somehow feel you’re still present in our own world. For AR to feel like it can fit into our everyday lives and not just in our basements playing video games alone, this kind of balance needs to be cracked, and Apple has done that. Within two hours of the news launching, I tried one myself. After a five-minute setup, based on my eyesight and head shape, I had a perfectly fitted de...