Apple Expanding to North Carolina?

Catawba has beaten out Cleveland for the new Apple facility. North Carolina will likely be Apple’s choice over competing Virginia

Bill to lure Apple heads to the governor | apple, bill, carolina – Local News – The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County.

It only makes sense. Saving money and making money means building your own parts instead of buying them from foreign companies who leak info and heap on tariffs(possibly). The article says only around a 100 employees will be there, maybe for online servers but I see this as a step to make their own chips, boards, iphones and tablet PCs What do you think?

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