Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label

sl4shd0rk writes "Among the much ballyhooed tech at Google I/O last week was the Google Nexus Q. Google made an effort to proudly point out the device was "Made in the USA" and even had it stamped on the back of it. A tear-down at ifixit.com however, reveals the guts of the thing are mostly manufactured overseas at the expected locations (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, et al). Wired also posted a tear-down in which they reveal a die-casting shop in Wisconsin is the source of the zinc housing, but certainly not the entire device as some news sources reported. It's great that Google decided to utilize the struggling U.S. manufacturing sector for this, but claiming the device is USA made, and being blatantly vague about its origins is quite misleading." How struggling the U.S. manufacturing sector is depends on who you ask and how you measure, remember.

Re:Timothy's anus stretches "Goatse" label

[Anonymous Coward]

Serious question. On some stories (there are certain patterns but I won't bore you), I notice a lot of the kinds of comments I am replying to right now. These comments have blatant racist/vulgar/nsfw word-spewings and are almost always from AC's. Is this some kind of coordinated effort to keep people at work or anywhere else there may be filters for this kind of stuff from reading this content? I notice it a lot on anything that praises open source or even tangentially like this Android running device. Just curious about people's thoughts.

Re:No, it isn't misleading

[Xest]

Yes, even with shit that's made in China you can claim the oil required for the plastics came from Iran or wherever the fuck.

Normally "Made in" refers to the final assembled products, not necessarily every constituent component. America may not even have the facilities to produce every single last component but fundamentally even bringing assembly to the US is a step more than most other companies are doing.

This story is just another desperate clutching at straws troll.

Re:No, it isn't misleading

[ShanghaiBill]

Heck, the Q is more 'Made in the USA' than many automobiles advertised as such.

I bought a new car earlier this year. I wanted to "buy American", so I looked into where the cars were made, and were the components were made. Of the cars I considered, the "most American" was a Honda.