Apple asked its manufacturers to investigate the possibility of moving iPhone production to the US, report says
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- Anonymous
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- 18 Nov 2016
Its a good lead by example case because if Apple can't manufacture (or at least assemble) in the US then what chance is there for other companies?
It's almost beneficial and preferential to be a third world developing country these days. Ridiculous. Thanks globalization.
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- Anonymous
- UD{
- 18 Nov 2016
AnonD-600084, 18 Nov 2016I think the reason why trump do like that is because,he jus... morenope, Trump plainly wants every US-based company to be exclusively operating in US, that is his main goal as a president, second is deport all nonUS Citizens with criminal records and suspend every J1 passports
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- AnonD-600084
- KZJ
- 18 Nov 2016
I think the reason why trump do like that is because,he just hate chinese(anti-chinese),because alot of big brand have a factory in china because due to the low cost,saving budget,and if that thing make in china,doenst mean its low quality,its all about a material they use and quality control and branding,apple,sony etc,have assembly factory in china,but still have good quality
but if it make from it origin country that much better,but the cost..
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- AnonD-609918
- PTI
- 18 Nov 2016
This is bad, there is some something good, but the bad outweights the good for a very large scale.
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- harlekkin
- bx9
- 18 Nov 2016
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2016Within two years from now, McDonald's entry level employee ... moreEven if they got paid $15, no American would work the crazy hours or do the monotonous task of assembling parts... they think they are too good for that.
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- harlekkin
- bx9
- 18 Nov 2016
It's not just price and wages, it's all about scalability. Foxconn employs 250-450k employees in Shenzhen alone, you can't hire that in the US in 2 years, impossible.
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- Anonymous
- 4P2
- 18 Nov 2016
mir, 18 Nov 2016The reason why the manufacturing prices are so low for prod... moreWithin two years from now, McDonald's entry level employee ask minimum wages $15 per hour. I don't know how much iPhone assembling worker will be paid.
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- Anonymous
- 4P2
- 18 Nov 2016
It is no that simple moving iPhone production to the US. Definitely is not within one or two year. How about making component too. Just read link below. Article and comment:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/iphone-made-in-usa-cost/
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- Anonymous
- 4$e
- 18 Nov 2016
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2016When it comes to quality, which is better: Made in usa or japan?Most Japanese products are made in China with the included made in Japan because someone designed it in Japan
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- 18 Nov 2016
AnonD-472910, 18 Nov 2016Probably the worst idea of all time the patriotic folks wou... moreVirtually every industry? Those movies you watch in cinemas? TV shows? Whatever operating system it is you used to browse this site and comment? Your PC's graphics card? Other hardware both tech and industrial? Military? Science? Space exploration? Okay now compare that to whatever 3rd world country you live in. Btw, i'm not american. I'm also not witless unlike you.
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- Hkj
- 18 Nov 2016
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2016Make Apple great again!Agreed...again...
Well, at least it's finally becoming a bore to look at...
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- mir
- t7X
- 18 Nov 2016
The reason why the manufacturing prices are so low for products made in china is because they have tons of workers that are being forced to labor like slaves for very small compensations. Moving production to America will indeed help the unemployment rating there, but I can bet that they will never work for less than minimum wage. Apple will definitely lose profit margin since they make them cheap (about $200) and then sell them at around $600-$900. Crazy, right?
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- AnonD-605106
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- 18 Nov 2016
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2016When it comes to quality, which is better: Made in usa or japan?There is no difference at all if all the aspects of quality assurance are in place. Commercially viable out of China? Nah...
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- AnonD-472910
- Re2
- 18 Nov 2016
Probably the worst idea of all time the patriotic folks would love this but those folks must be rich, the price would go.up like crazy smh funny how lots of Americans believe If its made in the USA it will be better those days are long gone America is behind in virtually every industry
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- Anonymous
- tPG
- 18 Nov 2016
Make Apple great again!
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- Anonymous
- tYW
- 18 Nov 2016
The apple logo belongs to America that's why such high price
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- AnonD-558092
- 6Ba
- 18 Nov 2016
Do it! At least this is one happy aftermath after Trump was elected (I don't judge Trump, but this is the first real aftermath of his election, maket stocks acting crazy don't count).
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- AnonD-560664
- prP
- 18 Nov 2016
Thanks for injecting politics into a non-political technology site. Some people don't want to know about politics no matter what right now. Another website I have to blacklist.
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- Anonymous
- bCk
- 18 Nov 2016
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2016When it comes to quality, which is better:
Made in usa or japan?Japan... In terms of innovation...
Well, Japanese phones like Sharp and Fujitsu had LTE support when the rest of the world are still playing with 3G...
And now many phone brands uses Sony camera modules... And with Samsung battery rupturing, even Chinese brands had switched from Li-Ion to Li-Poky battery cells from Sony...