Yet all of Trump's MAGA merchandise is made in China. This is all a scam to get companies and countries to kiss his ring.
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Trump Believes Apple Could Manufacture iPhones in the U.S.
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If you read the article then it states that it would have to import most of the components. Those components will have tariffs. So, even if they manage to automate the assembly process they would need to find enough skilled manufacturing engineers to set it up and run it, that would be hard in USA and in any western country.
Trump is going to build great big beautiful factories, many people say the biggest most beautiful and powerful factories seen in a very long period of time. Many people came, tears in their eyes and said sir you made the best factory the world has ever seen. And he’s going to get China to pay for it.
Trump believes in a lot of things (e.g. injecting bleach into the body can help against Covid infection; 2020 election was rigged/stolen). That doesn't mean he's correct.
Sure they could....After massive investment that would take decades, drive up the cost of the phone into the 2000s, and probably end Apple as we know it.
I love all the comments from people who want their phones to be continued to be made in sweat shops overseas.
Yes, I am sure that you know quite a lot more about the needs of manufacturing iPhones than the current CEO of Apple who was previously in supply chain management at said company.
Trump believed that he won in 2020 because a quack who sells pillows convinced him. Who gives a crap what he believes?
The US is already struggling to find workers for the advanced manufacturing sites it is already building/has
www.theregister.com
Where are they going to find the workforce for the rest of the electronics manufacturing industry with any reshoring?!
TSMC can't find skilled workers to complete Arizona fab
Output of 4nm parts stalled until at least 2025
Where are they going to find the workforce for the rest of the electronics manufacturing industry with any reshoring?!
He also believed that he could run a casino, and see how that turned out. Just because the Trump believes in something doesn't mean it is true or can happen.
LOL
This is gonna be an insane 2 years till the midterms.
LOL
This is gonna be an insane 2 years till the midterms.
Those know-nothing 24 year old bottle blondes with brunette eyebrows he finds never last long. They get knocked up the same year and leave the white house. Then eventually they get a Fox News weekend show for a year before it's canceled. Then they end up living on their rich hubby or their rich dad and volunteering at the kid's
They could also do it across the border in Mexico if that's the case, thing is, the 10% only rate for Brazil could change at any moment, Trump's policies are completely unpredictable, he can pick a fight with Brazil tomorrow for being part of BRICS (he has already threaten BRICS before) and slap a 100% tariff on Brazilian exports...
Elect a 34x felon, 6x bankrupt, 1x insurrectionist, serial assaulter of women, expect a disaster.
Let’s be honest. COULD all of this manufacturing be brought back to the US? Sure, it would take 20-25 years and cost trilliens but it could be done. But then you’d need the people to work there. Oh look at that among the things that are getting gutted in their quest to slash the government are training programs. Everything from vocational through higher ed is getting the heart cut out of it for fiscal though as often ideological reasons. So you wouldn’t have anyone to work in these facilities.
Apple could manufacture all their products in the U.S.
The question is would they ever want to.
The question is would they ever want to.
Trump can create the workforce with his magic sharpie (some say it can turn hurricanes)The US is already struggling to find workers for the advanced manufacturing sites it is already building/has
TSMC can't find skilled workers to complete Arizona fab
Output of 4nm parts stalled until at least 2025
Where are they going to find the workforce for the rest of the electronics manufacturing industry with any reshoring?!
Where did you get those figures from? The components of an iPhone cost a lot more than that let alone the manufacturing and assembly costs.
Unfortunately, Apple depends on slave labor. I wish we could manufacture in the USA!
U.S. President Donald Trump "absolutely" believes that Apple could manufacture its iPhones and other devices in the United States, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today during a media briefing.
Leavitt was asked whether Trump thought that iPhone manufacturing is the kind of technology that could move to the U.S. "Absolutely, he believes we have the labor, we have the workforce, we have the resources to do it," she replied, also referencing the $500 billion investment in the U.S. that Apple announced earlier this year. "And as you know, Apple has invested $500 billion here in the United States, so if Apple didn't think the United States could do it, they probably wouldn't have put up that big chunk of change."
Trump is planning to levy steep tariffs on China, Vietnam, Thailand India, the European Union, and other countries starting on April 9. He has claimed that if companies like Apple do not want to pay the tariffs, they should manufacture their devices in the United States. Despite Trump's suggestion that Apple could shift its incredibly complex supply chain to the U.S., it would be next to impossible. Disregarding the expense of such a maneuver, it's not likely that Apple and its suppliers would be able to find enough people with the necessary skillset in the United States. Cook commented on manufacturing in China in 2017, and said that Apple's iPhones are assembled there because China has expertise in very advanced manufacturing.
U.S. secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick made similar comments about iPhone manufacturing over the weekend, as 404 Media pointed out today in a piece titled "A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy." Lutnick said that the "army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America," suggesting that neither he nor Trump understands Apple's operations.
404 Media highlights Apple's 27-page supplier list [PDF], which lists the more than 50 countries where Apple gets components from. That doesn't even count rare earth minerals that are sourced from 79 countries, and that can't be mined in the U.S. Apple could not avoid tariffs by "manufacturing" in the United States because there is no feasible way all of the iPhone's components could be made in one country. Even if we limit "manufacturing" to device assembly, and the U.S. had the skilled employees required (which it does not), cost of living and wages in the U.S. vs. wages in other countries would make the price of a U.S. iPhone astronomically higher.
Apple has not yet commented on the tariffs, but the company has been stockpiling iPhones and is also planning to rely on imports from India, where tariffs are lower, to offset some of costs associated with importing devices from China.
It is true that Apple announced a $500 billion investment in the United States, but Apple will be manufacturing servers for its Private Cloud Compute system, not iPhones. Servers are a low demand product that aren't customer facing.
When Apple manufactured the Mac Pro in Texas during Trump's first term, it was largely a failure. Apple struggled to find local suppliers, importing components to Texas caused delays and unexpected expenses, and Apple had a hard time finding workers with the required skill.
As of yesterday, Trump was planning to levy a 54 percent tariff on China, but today, he increased that by another 50 percent. Starting tomorrow, goods imported from China will be subject to a tariff of 104 percent.
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To start saving money Apple 🍎 will have just the phone in a recyclable ♻️ plastic bag and nothing else. No charger, no stickers and no cords and no paper instructions. If you have that stuff already and don’t know how to use a iPhone by now then that will be on you.
So he slapped China with 104% tariffs to try and force a private company to manufacture in the United States? And I thought the GOP was the party of “small government”…
