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Future iPhones Could Be 'Made in America' as Apple Asks Foxconn to Consider U.S. Manufacturing
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For something of the scale of iPhone production, hundreds of direct jobs usually means thousands and thousands of indirect jobs. Truck drivers, FedEx, suppliers, support companies, etc.
I've read articles on sites like this about Apple adding iPhone factories in Brazil and recently in India to get around the lack of free trade that India has. That debunks the thought that Chinese skills are required. Just seems they can put a factory wherever there are many people happy to work for low wages.
It's a rumor. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump surrogates started it.
Hahahahaha...that's rich.....a bunch of millennials making 20 an hour to screw in a componate down as it passes their station? All so my phone can cost 3,000 bucks? Right...
A lot of kids that can't find their first jobs and need experience under the belt on top of a few bucks. Not the best job in the world, but if you're trying to get out of a sh-tty environment, this can be your lifesaver.
In other words "USA manufacturing salaries have been slashed to the point where we can return low paid factory jobs to the country". How's it feel to be the "beneficiaries" of the destruction of middle class wages?
For those whom are unaware of what I'm talking, GM has a new two tiered manufacturing pay scale. The people that were there before the bailout are still making decent money (somewhere north of $28 an hour, miserly compared to where the pay was historically for these jobs) while all new comers are making roughly $14 an hour.
We have come full circle chasing low labor rates to the point where "worker insecurity" (Alan Greenspan's favorite concept for big business) has decimated the middle class as they are now willing to work for anything above the typical service industry wages.
For those whom are unaware of what I'm talking, GM has a new two tiered manufacturing pay scale. The people that were there before the bailout are still making decent money (somewhere north of $28 an hour, miserly compared to where the pay was historically for these jobs) while all new comers are making roughly $14 an hour.
We have come full circle chasing low labor rates to the point where "worker insecurity" (Alan Greenspan's favorite concept for big business) has decimated the middle class as they are now willing to work for anything above the typical service industry wages.
Everyone will think this is a great idea until the price of the iPhone increases.
In any case, these service/support jobs are not the same as assembly line ones - and they require a totally different skill set as well.
Instead of having both types of jobs tho, we'll likely only have one.
Apple can try to get with some higher education institute and provide as a benefit for low-earning employee the possibility to do a free online 4 year degree. You stay with the company 4 years, you produce, you get free classes and get out of the production line with a Bachelor Degree.
As noted in the article, it's more than just a cheap labor issue. It would require massive numbers of ancillary companies to do exactly the same thing, to make the component parts needed, otherwise we're really only talking about finish assembly in the US, that would as others have noted, likely be done with robots not humans.
We are at the point where we have to stop thinking in terms of how we use to live and work, because those days are over for a lot of people (and it's heading that way for even more people). We are moving towards a time where less and less people are needed to produce products, food, etc., so we're going to need to find something new for people to do in order to earn a living and contribute to society.
We are at the point where we have to stop thinking in terms of how we use to live and work, because those days are over for a lot of people (and it's heading that way for even more people). We are moving towards a time where less and less people are needed to produce products, food, etc., so we're going to need to find something new for people to do in order to earn a living and contribute to society.
24K gold plated, 64GB models starting at $6999.
Better than serving french fries at McDonalds.
If it does, iPhone costs goes up, I mean how else does Apple maintain their ridiculously inflated margins?
But I do support this.
But I do support this.
Apple, like always, is going to be completely hands off and have Pegatron or Foxconn handle all the labor relations parts.
I keep hearing a figure of forty additional dollars is all it would cost extra to have iPhones made in America. If true, then it seems reasonable.
This is good news. I would pay more for American made.
Taking a political talking point during a raucous election literally is misguided. The agenda that will be passed by Congress and signed by the President will be a modest change to tax laws, investment deductions, marginal rates, etc., that will incentivise companies generally to increasingly manufacture in the US.
The government does not generally pick out one manufacturer and target them. It will not next year either. It will have some changes to legislation and regulation that is more biased to domestic businesses over foreign businesses. That's all.
Cook correctly notes the shortage of Vocational education in this country. Increasing that would be a great thing.
The government does not generally pick out one manufacturer and target them. It will not next year either. It will have some changes to legislation and regulation that is more biased to domestic businesses over foreign businesses. That's all.
Cook correctly notes the shortage of Vocational education in this country. Increasing that would be a great thing.