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Trump Believes Apple Could Manufacture iPhones in the U.S.
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Only if US manages to copy not just the factory, but the whole infrastructure of suppliers and logistics.
Do you know who is the world leader in automated manufacturing? China. “Dark factories”, where the light is not on because no people are there to see it, is already a thing. The general public in the US has absolutely no idea how much they are behind on manufacturing.
The last time I saw any American made electronics was in a Radio Shack shop. It was a curious place as most of the electronics products I owned came from Japan at that time.
But shes hot.
A well-known story:
The CNN Business article continued to make the point:
The CNN Business article continued to make the point:
It would be fun if China made it illegal to make MAGA merchandise.
Our country is trillions and trillions in debt. That damage was done long ago.
MR: “Despite Trump's suggestion that Apple could shift its incredibly complex supply chain to the U.S., it would be next to impossible.”
That’s not exactly correct. It would be extraordinarily complicated, expensive, and time consuming for Apple (and ultimately very expensive for US consumers), but it would certainly not be “impossible.”
That’s not exactly correct. It would be extraordinarily complicated, expensive, and time consuming for Apple (and ultimately very expensive for US consumers), but it would certainly not be “impossible.”
You think TCO of the equipment including the salary of the skilled labour required to operate and maintain it can't be higher than labour costs? Sigh…😔
Let's fire everybody from their jobs here on MacRumors. We can find people in India, China, Poland, ... who can do your job cheaper than you easily.
If American workers cost too much to make iPhone's, well, we can make that same argument about your job.
If American workers cost too much to make iPhone's, well, we can make that same argument about your job.
Apple is the most cash rich company of all time. They have an unfathomably large mountain of money. Their huge success is due entirely to products that were designed in the US by Americans (and one Englishman) to be universally desirable. The profitability of this great American success story is currently being absolutely battered by huge tariffs imposed by their own president.
Meanwhile that same guy keeps banging on about how unfair it is that Europeans don’t buy US cars. Anyone who has been to Europe and looked at the roads (and the parking spaces) understands completely why Europeans have no interest in these cars - they are not designed with them in mind at all. And yet he keeps on and on and on about it, implying that it’s some grand anti-American conspiracy.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere lol
Meanwhile that same guy keeps banging on about how unfair it is that Europeans don’t buy US cars. Anyone who has been to Europe and looked at the roads (and the parking spaces) understands completely why Europeans have no interest in these cars - they are not designed with them in mind at all. And yet he keeps on and on and on about it, implying that it’s some grand anti-American conspiracy.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere lol
Well then, Trump will fix it by investing in education and--- oh wait.
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People don't take you seriously when you post easily debunked tripe, FWIW.
To be clear. He said inject disinfectant:
They've already diversified their portfolios into other holdings due to advance warning of secret plans. That's how all the politicians get elected moderately wealthy and retire rich. Or appointed rich and just get richer.
You know, what the plebs go to prison for when it's called "insider trading."
That's because they dumped manufacturing without high enough profit margins. With a focus on manufacturing products with high enough margins they didn't really need to go to extreme extents to increase productivity and reduce costs.
That's why protectionism is a double-edged sword: it can help some local manufacturing survive against foreign competitors, but it also protects them from competitors that are simply more efficient, so the local industries can end up stagnating in terms of efficiency as that competition is removed.
“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.”
Well, if I can train someone from Singapore how to do my job before the whole department moves there forever, then someone from China can train me how to do their job before their whole department comes back here forever.
They just have to want to do it.
Well, if I can train someone from Singapore how to do my job before the whole department moves there forever, then someone from China can train me how to do their job before their whole department comes back here forever.
They just have to want to do it.
I’m sure they thought of it but it’s an expensive endeavor requires lots of R&D. Maybe these tariffs are the ultimate incentive to do that. I can't imagine Apple paying 2 to 3X what they used to pay a Chinese or an Indian worker and also keep the same price.
Why doesn't Trump start with his merchandise?
That’s the most hilarious claim I’ve heard all year (that didn’t come out of Trump’s mouth).
Trump's administration already said "the American dream isn't access to cheap goods". Only billionaires are allow to buy eggs 😱
She's 27 and her husband is 60. She must get her grumpiness from him.
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Some components inside the phone are still source outside the US. You can move manufacturing here, but you’ll still have to pay tariff, just for the parts.
Unless he plan to tear down American city’s to mine for rare earth metals, it’s a long term pipe dream with short term pain.
Unless he plan to tear down American city’s to mine for rare earth metals, it’s a long term pipe dream with short term pain.
That's the thing about all this. It's not a completely ridiculous concept that the iPhone be made in America. If actual moves had been made to do that under the Obama administration, it could be done or at least significant by now.
I don't know if this is the way to do it, but I sure would like to see someone actually make a real move in that direction beyond the peripherals.
America's lack of advanced manufacturing has implications beyond just the iPhone.
Have you ever been on an electronics assembly line, or are you one of those former infectious disease “experts” who is suddenly now an electronics supply chain/manufacturing “expert”?
Besides all of that, if Apple could automate iPhone manufacturing 100%, how would it benefit the U.S. economy to perform that manufacturing in the U.S.?