For various reasons, it’s long been useful for Apple to be able to say that its Mac Pro is made in the US. The rest of the company’s hardware manufacturing might be outsourced to a complex southeast Asian supply chain, but it can at least mollify jobs-obsessed nationalist politicians by pointing to the Texas facility where the top-end Mac is put together.
Contrary to what those politicians might wish us to believe, that facility has been open since 2013, and the company’s announcement that the 2019 model would be made there emphasized that this was merely a continuation of a long-running policy. The 2023 Mac Pro, unveiled earlier this month, continues this tradition as well. But something has changed.
As MacRumors has spotted (and as confirmed by an FCC filing), the 2023 Mac Pro has a subtly different label to the previous model. This suggests that Apple has either altered its manufacturing policy, or has decided (or been instructed) to clarify the policy that was already in place.
Read more at Macworld.com