{"id":5039,"date":"2012-06-30T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2012-06-30T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T04:06:05","slug":"made-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/made-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/063012_0352_MadeinUSA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s latest home media player, the Nexus Q, will be made in the USA. John Markoff took a look at how this fits into a wider trend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>There&#8217;s a slight uptick in the companies willing to build things in the USA. Reasons for the shift include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Labour costs in China have increased.<\/li>\n<li>Transportation costs have gone up.<\/li>\n<li>China is infamous for intellectual theft.<\/li>\n<li>Designers increasingly want to be closer to the manufacturers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some analysts predict that this new trend could bring 2-3 million jobs to the United States.<\/li>\n<li>However Google is paying a price for its efforts. The product costs significantly more than other products on the market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including what experts have to say about this shift, the number of people involved, some details of the factory where Google&#8217;s device will be made, why Dell is a glorified design and marketing company, and the corporations that are considering a shift back to the United States, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/28\/technology\/google-and-others-give-manufacturing-in-the-us-a-try.html?smid=re-share&amp;pagewanted=all\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/28\/technology\/google-and-others-give-manufacturing-in-the-us-a-try.html?smid=re-share&amp;pagewanted=all\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s latest home media player, the Nexus Q, will be made in the USA. John Markoff took a look at how this fits into a wider trend: There&#8217;s a slight uptick in the companies willing to build things in the USA. Reasons for the shift include: Labour costs in China have increased. Transportation costs have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/063012_0352_MadeinUSA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}