You’re missing the forest for the trees. The cause to celebrate is not that Apple chips are being made. It’s to celebrate that chips of such high calibre are being made.
It’s only a start, but it’s a huge deal in an economic, technological and geopolitical context.
It looks like you’re complaining Apple happens to have placed first orders for the new fab.
Maybe next week a run of Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite will begin production, for example. Is that second set of orders what you’re awaiting?
Yes, basically. I don't like seeing what appears to be a whole ecosystem in the US centered on Apple. I really don't want to see a future where so much production is Apple-centered in America, that it's "un-American" to use non-Apple devices (because the Apple devices are mostly American-made, whereas the competitors are foreign-made). So seeing the US fabbing cutting-edge CPUs for a whole range of mobile devices from different vendors would be great.
Yeah, that's great, but it will be a lot better when they're making high-caliber chips for multiple customers, not just one.