As Apple reveals its US jobs footprint has grown to 2.4 million, we pull back the curtain on one of America’s biggest employers, explore how the firm has transformed the technology industry, and explain how anyone can make a living from Apple and its ecosystems...
2.4 MILLION JOBS AND COUNTING
More than three decades ago, Andy MacKay and four friends founded Maccor, which today has earned a reputation as the number one manufacturer of battery testing systems in the world. For a company like Apple, battery testing is critical - in fact, the company cannot ship a single unit without first ensuring its batteries are safe and reliable. That’s why, for a number of years, Apple has depended on the team at Maccor and its expertise in its field to power its iPhone battery testing, helping to create more than 130 jobs in Oklahoma and Maccor’s new facility in California. That’s just one of the ways Apple is helping to fuel the US economy, according to a press release published by the company last week. Indeed, Apple says that Maccor is just one of nine thousand American suppliers currently being used by the company, with the Cupertino firm spending more than $60 billion on services in 2018 alone.
Apple’s commitment to independent American corporations has helped to support incredible 450,000 jobs and all together, the company has helped to create an incredible 2.4 million US jobs in all 50 US states. That figure has increased four-fold in just eight years, and with Apple on pace to directly contribute $350 billion to the US economy by 2023, Apple has proven itself as an American powerhouse; one that is showing no signs of slowing down.
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