I thought the exact same thing! "Impact on iPhone 5 Production unimportant" would be better.
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Riot Shuts Down Foxconn Plant, Impact on iPhone 5 Production Unclear
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I thought the exact same thing! "Impact on iPhone 5 Production unimportant" would be better.
Some of the comments out of you are disappointing.
Workers being beat? If this is happening then I feel badly for the workers. They can halt production of the iPhone (and anything else made in that plant) forever if it means workers won't be beaten any longer.
Workers being beat? If this is happening then I feel badly for the workers. They can halt production of the iPhone (and anything else made in that plant) forever if it means workers won't be beaten any longer.
I too would love to see that in my lifetime. If any company could pull it off, it would be Apple.
But it's not really the tax money. It's the wages, the health benefits, and the fact that most of the subcomponents are already built in Asia.
That said, I'd really be interested in knowing just how much more an actual U.S. assembled iPhone would cost. 2x? 3x?
I don't think the impact would be that great. The American economy would certainly be strengthened if Apple were to do such a move. Hundreds of thousands of jobs added, tons of money poured into American workers.
Plus, just think - if Apple had to actually pay taxes on that $100B they have stashed outside the US.....people complain about Romney's measly millions stashed in a Swiss bank account....PFFT!
Oakley makes their products in the USA - how do their prices compare to other high end sunglasses makers? (maybe a poor analogy but was the first "USA made" company I could think of).
Maybe it's time for Apple to distance themselves from Foxconn. Why is it ONLY Foxconn that has these problems? There are plenty of other companies out there that create iPhone parts en masse and it seems Foxconn every year can't handle treating people well or has no ability to deal with whatever social issues are at hand.
Even those jobs won't be there forever.
Foxconn's parent company is buying over a million robots to replace workers over the next few years.
They have no choice. Wages have gone up. Profit margins are about half of what they were before they took on iPhone production a half decade ago.
True - but wouldn't the fact they are pouring that money back into the American economy help offset the added cost (as far as end cost/perceived cost based on value of USD/increase of standard of living)? Wishful thinking I suppose....
They already make some of them here - I'm assuming since my iPhone was shipped from Tennessee whereas my wife's came from a Foxconn plant in China.
RAmen
Hail to the FSM. Let the labors costs rise higher and higher in China. Build the almighty robot factories in USA. RAmen RAmen RAmen!!!!
Hail to the FSM. Let the labors costs rise higher and higher in China. Build the almighty robot factories in USA. RAmen RAmen RAmen!!!!
It's not even that. We don't have the physical capacity to make these components like china can. We don't have enough engineers to make it work unfortunately it would take us yeaaaars to put out those kind of numbers
Chinese workers want the same pay and rights as workers everywhere. How funny that the capitalist west leverages the totalitarian state apparatus of a so-called communist country to make sure the slaves stay in line pumping out our tat.
It's no coincidence that Chicago School economic ideas were first rolled out in latin american fascist states. More extreme forms of capitalism can't work without an oppressive state cracking skulls.
It's no coincidence that Chicago School economic ideas were first rolled out in latin american fascist states. More extreme forms of capitalism can't work without an oppressive state cracking skulls.
I remember a interview with Tim cook and Walt Mossberg, where Mossberg asked Cook whether there would be plans to build iPhone in the US... Cook replied by saying many parts are actually already made in the US, like the Gorilla Glass... Another reason for not manufacturing products in the US is due to the lack of die makers. Apparently you could fill several cities with die makers in China, whereas collectively you wouldn't even fill a conference room in the US.
I totally see your point though, but it will never happen.
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Ahhh... Tennessee is probably just the U.S. arrival port if your phone was shipped FedEx.
I'm fairly certain every iPhone Apple has ever sold to the public has been assembled in China.
Yeah, that's the real question, isn't it? Exactly how much would a U.S.-manufactured iPhone cost? It think a lot of people would be willing to pay more for such a phone, but 2x or 3x more? No, that's not going to happen.
This guy gets it.
For capitalism to be peaches and cream here at home, you have to export the misery. But wait, things are terrible here, what do you think that means for the rest of the world where we've installed capitalistic regimes?
Totally agree - wrong editorial perspective here altogether in the title. Priorities people.
And I'm sure that above all the readers of this article are primarily concerned with the safety and working conditions of these people, not the delay of the phone...
Wild scenes captured here.
Wild scenes captured here.