Cook: Apple to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US

[dogstarman]

And where are they now..... IF at all?

• Texas Instruments - Going strong, one of the most important chip manufacturers.
• Phillips - Dutch Company, highly diversified and innovative.
• Westinghouse -- Still an imporant player in heavy industry.
• General Electric -- Still one of the most large and profitable American companies, but not what it used to be or could have been.
• Zenith, RCA -- Gone. Exist as "trademarks" owned by other companies (LG, Technicolor)
• Honeywell -- Still there, doing OK.
• IBM -- Not the giant that it used to be, but doing well in their business.

[flyboy56]

Technical high schools have been around forever, but most people believed these schools were for losers who couldn't make it in regular school. My nephew wanted to go to one but his mother wouldn't allow it. These trade schools are a great start for the types of skills our job market is looking for.

[BlandFood]

• Texas Instruments - Going strong, one of the most important chip manufacturers.
• Phillips - Dutch Company, highly diversified and innovative.
• Westinghouse -- Still an imporant player in heavy industry.
• General Electric -- Still one of the most large and profitable American companies, but not what it used to be or could have been.
• Zenith, RCA -- Gone. Exist as "trademarks" owned by other companies (LG, Technicolor)
• Honeywell -- Still there, doing OK.
• IBM -- Not the giant that it used to be, but doing well in their business.

Westinghouse is no more than other companies like Zenith, RCA, Admiral, Dumont ect.... in name only. Ate up and redistributed to the highest bidder. The current Westinghouse is a name that rose from the ashes.

The Sony's and Sharp's of the 60's and 70's sent them packing..... sad part is they invented the things that were made cheaper in Japan.

[Seadog]

And where are they now..... IF at all?

That's not the point. Cook said that electronics manufacturing " has never really been done here", which just ain't true. For more than half the 20th century, the US and Great Britain were the world leaders in electronics manufacturing.

To add to the list, RCA, Bendix, Emerson, Motorola

[The Eternal White Belt]

That's not the point. Cook said that electronics manufacturing " has never really been done here", which just ain't true. For more than half the 20th century, the US and Great Britain were the world leaders in electronics manufacturing.

To add to the list, RCA, Bendix, Emerson, Motorola

But really, back when there was a very limited number of electronic products, they were created here. Then when electronics boomed, it pretty much was done in Asia.

[Seadog]

Electronics boomed when the first AM radio hit the consumer market.

[flyboy56]

A time when one vacuum tube was a transistor. Today, millions of tiny transistors are placed on one small silicon board. Hard to compare todays electronics technology to the 60's era technology.

[dogstarman]

Westinghouse is no more than other companies like Zenith, RCA, Admiral, Dumont ect.... in name only. Ate up and redistributed to the highest bidder. The current Westinghouse is a name that rose from the ashes.
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Definitely "not there anymore" as far as consumer products go.

However, the do have a little side-business BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. As a former Pittsburgher, I can say that they were and still are a presence in that area.

[Joy in Mudville]

A time when one vacuum tube was a transistor. Today, millions of tiny transistors are placed on one small silicon board. Hard to compare todays electronics technology to the 60's era technology.

Makes me think of those guys at Intel and Bell Labs

[Joy in Mudville]

This dovetails with another thread I started on the same topic.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/08/166801...g-may-be-smart