we won’t have the tariff issue in 2027, everyone calm your tits
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20th Anniversary iPhone Likely to Be Made in China Due to 'Extraordinarily Complex' Design
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Chinese workers have the technical expertise to mass produce devices. 'Merica also has "extraordinarily cheap" labor pool as well: for profit prison.😕 The problem is there aren't enough prisoners with the skills to assemble iPhones at the speed and quality of the Chinese
Apple should be designing and making the SOCs and other vital components in Donald's isolationist US dictatorship (& after Donald is gone, also in sovereign Canada & sovereign Mexico) and shipping it for assembly in other countries.
They don’t care about their workers. They only care about the bad publicity it generates if someone dies.
Don't worry, they're going to change the design to something that can be manufactured in the US:
Yeah, the ship has already sailed on freedom. But we were heading this way anyway - if not him, it would've been someone else. Way sooner than I thought, tho. I had estimated we had ~50 years left. Oh well. Nothing to do now but Party Like It's 1999!
But you know what "make america great again" means, right?
Underscreen cameras already exist; however, under-screen cameras which can be disguised perfectly AND not suffer from lower image quality dont exist yet. That is Apple's goal.
Don't worry, tarrifs are only to forc China to remove their own tarrifs on the US
It's the only feature that distinguishes it from an iPad mini, so why not?
Isn’t that every big corporation? I’ve heard where a worker died at a certain big store in the USA and the manager was mainly concerned about getting the body off the sales floor because it’s scaring customers
Slightly off-topic, but read "The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival" by Sir John Glubb. The average empire lasts about 250 years starting with Assyria in 859 B.C. to the fall of the British empire starting in the 1950s. So, perfect timing.
Would be cool if we could get a Made in China version of Gurman. Assumption after assumption and making a low living by pedaling speculation. At least the MIC version might be slightly more accurate and honorable 👏
To be fair, the current iPhones are also extraordinarily complex.
I have an idea for a name. How about Newton? 😂
Just wait until the iPhone 30 - what will the rating be? XXX
“Except as punishment for a crime”
Perhaps convicts could make iPhones instead of license plates? 🤔
The Doctor kept calling his multi-function tool a screwdriver, even though it's a screwdriver, a remote detonator, a lock pick, a medical scanner, a computer hacking tool, etc.
It will forever be known as a phone.😙 We should have called it a tricorder from the start.🖖
The usual gurman, no details, and the phone wouldn’t start production for another 2 years, so there is 2 (two) years to sort things out, and, plenty of 2 years time for him to say “Apple changed its plans”…
Way way too early for these type of “predictions”
Way way too early for these type of “predictions”
Let's rephrase this headline