Trump is the expert. I am sure he knows what he is talking about. /s
He’s not wrong. They could be made here, and we would pay 3 or 4 grand a phone for the privilege. Poor dumb orange manchild doesn’t understand the basics of our reality because he has never had to.
So how high does the tariff have to go for that math to work out?
Ive gotten quotes for general circuit board mfg in the US, its 1000% more than china.
Yes 10x, minimum.
He’ll just tell his bud Tim Apple to do it. When you’re prez they let you do it. Don’t even ask, grab them by the apples.
They can, at a terrible cost to people who won’t be working at manufacturing plants. Anyone saying it’s not feasible probably means that it’s not feasible without impoverishing middle class, which they belong to either economically or culturally. Some of the people are probably happy, most won’t be, because politicians don’t usually deliver on their promises.
Well, yeah, they can, but they’d be much more expensive. Which wouldn’t be a problem if wages matched inflation.
I mean, if iPhones went from $1,100 apiece to $7,000 apiece and minimum wage jumped to $38 an hour, then sure maybe.
But then, if we did that, your parents and grandparents can say goodbye to any concept of their retirement accounts having value enough for them to survive on without working a full-time job.
The original plan was to build it in the US in the first place. Steve Jobs did not trust that China wouldn’t rip off everything about the iphone. He was firmly against the idea of China making the iphone until Apple got him to take a tour a new facility built just for making the new device. China fronted all the funding and manpower to build the facility to make the phone and they did it very, very fast. Steve was instantly smitten.
So it’s actually rather ironic that long after his death, there’s talk of making it in America.
They did try that. It was in Texas for Mac Pro. It was such a failure that the whole product launch was delayed. And it was then under perfect conditions without all the tarrifs.
I don’t think the skills exist. Foxconn now has decades lead over competitors on assembling tiny devices with crazy low tolerances at a massive scale, with last-minute changes.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but there’s nothing that is manufactured in North America or Europe on that scale, with comparable tolerances, lead times, and speed.
That’s before we get into the discussion about labour - working hours, pay, etc.
