foxcon workers on average get back 2:50 an hour. Hardly the f****** same.
Would love to see trump etc try and portray that kind of wage as a "win"
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Would love to see trump etc try and portray that kind of wage as a "win"
I wonder if they'll manufacture the suicide nets in the US as well.
You could have them printed with the stars and stripes to be extra patriotic.
You could have them printed with the stars and stripes to be extra patriotic.
Nothing that I could come up with, for an example of stupidity, would be better than the existence of the quote above. Conservatism, to this extreme, is dangerous.
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It would be good to see some solid figures. Given how many iPhones Foxconn makes for Apple, the economy of scale should work in favour of only a small price increase, right?
I hope you guys realize that your numbers are extremely silly. They assemble mac pros in Texas. They went up $500, but they also went up $300 on each of the prior two major refreshes. If those numbers were remotely close to accurate, it would be a non-starter.
You really think labour cost is $20??
If that was the case, production would already be in US, close to where the design was made. Why ship something across the world, risk currency fluctuations and work with people who talk a strange language, if there was no money in it.
It's all about labour, cost and it's not just about assembling the phone. An iPhone consist of hundreds of components, such as sensors, display and batteries made by other companies. And those components need materials that people will need to transport and work in mines to bring up. Having it in China is much cheaper
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This is a fully automated plant. After Construction you'll have a few hundred techs working in shifts.
A Macdonalds worker gets approx 7-9 US / hour BUT the Foxconn worker gets free accommodation in the plants dormitory plus food there. So taking this into consideration I think it's not so much cheaper in china as Foxconn also has to pay this.
If Trump would allow foreign held cash to pay for it then he rightfully will get the credit for this, this is not some investment.
Foxconn nowadays is pretty much the only electronic manufacturer. They produce everything from Intel motherboards, to the Xbox, Nintendo Wii or PlayStation. They can get prototypes out pretty fast and of course have production line capacity customers like Apple needs to get their iPhones to the market fast in numbers they need.
I was just reading in yahoo news that this plant would be manufacturing large screens as well for TV's, and quite possibly computer monitors.
If we go back to Teslas gigafactory, even though it's costing close to 5B, the price of lithium ion batteries will be virtually cut in half, all while doubling the current worlds output.
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Not just about labor. We must also consider workers comp, health benefits, SS including Medicare and possible lawsuits.
If we go back to Teslas gigafactory, even though it's costing close to 5B, the price of lithium ion batteries will be virtually cut in half, all while doubling the current worlds output.
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Not just about labor. We must also consider workers comp, health benefits, SS including Medicare and possible lawsuits.
Yes! It's not magic. America will prosper amazingly so long as we avoid having a President screwing us over 24/7 like we've been having at least since Reagan and plenty before that. Just give us something besides a traitor and we will do fine.
He is most displeased with the apparent lack of progress and will personally oversee the final stages of the construction of that factory.
I think we should get all the obsolete jobs back, like the switchboard jobs, that would be bring back jobs to America and then, only then will we become great.
Thank you for a thoughtful post. Don't know about only 200 jobs, but not five digit numbers.
Wishful thinking. These things have to be made without anybody breathing on it.
I posted many times that as long as the US does not change and improve it's education they will not be an attractive labor market. Most of what has to be assembled by hand is done by non Americans. Harvest, assembly lines, meat packers. etc.
Lip service is what people give who claim they would pay more if it was "American made".
Yeah, $ 3 for one Apple, (the fruit) because an American worker would expect OSHA to step in if they had to climb into trees multiple times to pick an Apple, hurt their back (allegedly) and no machine was available to do it for them. (Yes, sarcasm with a splash of truth)
Made in America is not even a quality mark!
Assembly work is very hard and parents usually want a better life for their children, so anybody who does work in assembly tries for their kids NOT having to do that. There goes the next generation.
They won't even learn to be engineers. Where are the 10,000s of support staff mass production requires. What area has 30,000 to 50,000 in one swoop to assemble mass production in the millions?
Lastly what do you do with all these people if a product cycle ends and what they are making is no longer sold in large numbers?
In my area there are not enough electricians, plumbers, masons and the like. They make a fortune as they can't even do all the jobs being offered to them. And, no American wants to do small jobs. Gotta big big money.
When I get an estimate from a corporation it's double than what it should really cost.
BTW: Whenever I finally get some tradesmen they are not American.
Again, education first. Then we talk!
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A person with that opinion needs to get into phone manufacturing business, because such a has a a firm grip on the economics of phone manufacturing. Competition to Foxconn, what should the name of the be?
By what metric? He has the lowest approval rating of any incoming POTUS...and this election has stirred up the other side more than usual, that's what leads to the pendulum swinging the other way.