You are right of course. People are dying because of decisions made by this ghastly individual. Cost of iPhones are insignificantNot fair for the rest of us non-Americans though.
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Trump Tells Tim Cook to Stop Building iPhones in India
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“A new factory for advanced server manufacturing in Texas is scheduled to open later this year.“. So Apple is going to make servers again??
President Donald Trump has asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to halt the company's manufacturing expansion in India, in a potential disruption of Apple's plan to shift iPhone production away from China.
"I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday," Trump said during his state visit to Qatar, according to Bloomberg. "He is building all over India."
Trump claimed that following their discussion, Apple will be "upping their production in the United States."
In the fiscal year ending March, Apple's iPhone production in India reached $22 billion, a nearly 60% increase compared to the previous year. However, Trump's comments complicate Apple's strategy to import most US-bound iPhones from India by the end of next year.
Apple and its manufacturing partners have accelerated their movement away from China in recent months. The trend began after COVID restrictions disrupted operations, and has only accelerated amid ongoing US-China tensions, particularly in the wake of Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs.
Most India-manufactured iPhones are assembled at Foxconn's factory in the southern part of the country. Tata Group's electronics manufacturing arm, which acquired Wistron's local business and manages Pegatron's operations in India, is another major supplier.
When asked about the supply chain's future during the company's recent earnings call, Cook said: "What we learned some time ago, having everything in one location had too much risk with it. We have, over time, with certain parts of the supply chain, opened up new sources of supply. You could see that kind of thing continuing in the future."
During the same earnings call, Cook highlighted Apple's impact in the United States, including plans to spend $500 billion over the next four years and expanding facilities in several states. A new factory for advanced server manufacturing in Texas is scheduled to open later this year.
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It's due to one of the most dangerous situations that can happen in politics: cult of personality.
What did Apple think was going to happen?
Did Tim Cook miss out on seeing the big tariff table Trump was holding up?
The devices assembled in India are based on kits coming from China anyway.
Did Tim Cook miss out on seeing the big tariff table Trump was holding up?
The devices assembled in India are based on kits coming from China anyway.
Yes, for their own Apple Intelligence infrastructure. I don't think they plan to actually sell those servers to
Apple also announced 20K new hires but most are going to be in R&D, not manufacturing itself.
That's the problem; Trumpet literally thinks everything is his business.
The main difference between MR and Reddit is the downvote limit at this point… what an echo chamber.
Inspired by The Jetsons, it will create exactly one new job: The guy who pushes the button.
To quote the Greek painter of old, Apelles, "Ne supra crepidam" ("not beyond the shoe") Don't talk about a subject you know nothing about.
Everyone should welcome and support these kinds of manufacturing jobs in America. As they will be regulated they will pay well and offer good benefits just like other manufacturing.
"but but.. the iphone will cost more"
That is not where your thought process should start.
"but but.. the iphone will cost more"
That is not where your thought process should start.
Maybe reality is something that is an echo in intself.
Have you considered that your fandom of Trump is unfounded?
I don't think you know what a true dictator is or what their results are. Try reading a history book and stop lumping all the people you don't like in with real actual dictators. Maybe try spending a little more time on other things instead of just "get trump".
We will see about that in a few year. I wouldn't keep my hopes up for this tactic...
The Cheeto telling Tim Cook where to manufacture their products is like a man with 6 bankruptcies telling the guy who raised Apple's valuation how to do his job...
Oh wait.
Oh wait.
On the other hand if the Cheeto was any intelligent he would use that brand new shiny jet as a leverage, "Tim if you bring bring manufacturing to the USA, I'll give you this SHINY new jet.
Tim is learning the hard way that once you get in bed with the mob, you never get out of it
Not true. Possibly you’re believing everything the liar in chief tells you or what his proxy, the hilariously idiotic Karoline Leavitt or one of the other goons currently disgracing the White House and the USA announces. Can you honestly say that China’s ongoing response, or lack of, is doing what HE wants? Can you honestly say that the E.U. Is responding in the way HE wants. Mark Carney is reacting like HE wants? And very little is written down in the form of a trade treaty were countries have been talking and so little or nothing can be said in regard to what HE wants or what precisely he has achieved. These are not trade negotiations they are tariff / blackmail talks. You can’t know what HE wants because it’s not clear what HE wants. Even his administration is in the dark about much of what drivel is going to seap out next. All you can say so far is that he is going around causing chaos and then retreating when the chaos comes back to bite him. And the worst bites are yet to come.
Reading history books will lead to recognizing some common patterns in how some countries have become less free in the past. Leaders fostering a cult of personality, populism, push for the deprivation of rights aimed at first only at "problematic" segments of the population...
The US is not a dictatorship - yet, but the patterns are there and IMHO they should be taken seriously.
What do you expect when you vote for a fraudster and a convicted felon?
Actually the US is clicking like no other. We finally have respect again. Love it! We are living in history of a man who is taking the US to the greatest heights it's ever been. Enjoy the ride!