Impossible to relocate iPhone production to the US?

I prefer my iPhone

  • More expensive but made in U.S.A.

    Votes: 5 100.0%
  • Cheaper but made overseas

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    5
iPhones have good quality and it won´t change by relocating the place were people put the parts together. The problem is that Apple is not the only phone/computer maker and others should also be forced to make the products dedicated to the US market in the US.
Forced huh?
Introduce Trump´s 45 % customs?
Your article says prices would double upon moving production here. I think they'd prefer it go up 45% than 100%. And then we have to remember that Trump has no understanding of trade agreements, so that 45% tariff is never going to happen.
Then make it 100 %. Bringing jobs home must be a general goal, anyway. When the increasing purchasing power can redeem the higher prices, everything is fine.
So you want to kill the iPhone and have no jobs for anybody. Damn that's harsh.
So you want to continue to enable those who promote slave labor.
 
Apple has asked its contractors to calculate the cost of making an iPhone in America. It will be more than double, they say. But this is not the only concern Apple has under Trump´s pressure. The possibility is another. Currently, iPhone parts are assembled in one (two) big place that employs over 300.000 iSlaves just for Apple. iSlaves do not have homes, lives and iPhones. They rarely leave the factory compound they live in and the pay is insufficient to pay a rent.
The point is, however, the argument that the US lacks the workforce and infrastructure the iPhone production requires.
A real argument or nonsense?

Exclusive: Apple could make iPhones in US in future: sources- Nikkei Asian Review



Maybe they should try places like Detroit and Chicago, by giving the companies huge tax breaks to make the idea somewhat feasable. then perhaps they could start to train and hire local people who would other wise not have a carreer in these economic ghosts towns.

Or go to a State like New Mexico where labor will be cheap and land is also cheap and build them there.

far far more complicated than that. Jobs said in his book that if an iphone production line goes down on a Sunday morning in China he can have a 300 engineers working on it in a hour. In America he'd have to wait till Monday to get 10 engineers working on it and lose days of critical production. Americans are fat and lazy and there are few of them. The scale and scope and attitude there is much better suited to international mass production volumes than the USA.
 
So you want to continue to enable those who promote slave labor.

really stupid to call it slave labor when everyone takes the jobs voluntarily because they pay 3 times what jobs back on the family farm pay and when they are free to quit at any time.
 
So you want to continue to enable those who promote slave labor.

better to close the slave labor iphone factories to force workers back on to family farms at 1/3 the pay and so in the West we can pay double for an Iphone. See why we are positive that liberalism is based in pure ignorance? Is any other conclusion possible?
 
So you want to continue to enable those who promote slave labor.

better to close the slave labor iphone factories to force workers back on to family farms at 1/3 the pay and so in the West we can pay double for an Iphone. See why we are positive that liberalism is based in pure ignorance? Is any other conclusion possible?
You have no idea what you are talking about. China is developing so they have little choice but the life on the farm is far better.
 
You have no idea what you are talking about. China is developing so they have little choice but the life on the farm is far better.

if so why are millions leaving their subsistance farms?????????
They are sent by the families to make some money. Chinese cities are overcrowded and the government sends migrant workers back after 6 months. Life in the factory compound is terrible. Also, students can be forced to "serve" for a time or they cannot study. Wages have increased overtime and Chinese companies have started to outsource.
 
You have no idea what you are talking about. China is developing so they have little choice but the life on the farm is far better.

if so why are millions leaving their subsistance farms?????????
They are sent by the families to make some money. Chinese cities are overcrowded and the government sends migrant workers back after 6 months. Life in the factory compound is terrible. Also, students can be forced to "serve" for a time or they cannot study. Wages have increased overtime and Chinese companies have started to outsource.

The Chinese are now getting rich as opposed to slowly starving to death under libcommieism. The switch to Republican capitalism eliminated 40% of all the poverty on earth. THey are now number one in cars, movies, and plane flights. The greatest economic miracle in human history featuring 8% growth for 35 years.
 
You have no idea what you are talking about. China is developing so they have little choice but the life on the farm is far better.

if so why are millions leaving their subsistance farms?????????
They are sent by the families to make some money. Chinese cities are overcrowded and the government sends migrant workers back after 6 months. Life in the factory compound is terrible. Also, students can be forced to "serve" for a time or they cannot study. Wages have increased overtime and Chinese companies have started to outsource.

The Chinese are now getting rich as opposed to slowly starving to death under libcommieism. The switch to Republican capitalism eliminated 40% of all the poverty on earth. THey are now number one in cars, movies, and plane flights. The greatest economic miracle in human history featuring 8% growth for 35 years.
To be objective, miracles are not made by offering cheap labor. In fact, most of the stuff made in China is actually European and American.
 
, miracles are not made by offering cheap labor.

did someone say they were by cheap labor???
I do. China is still a NIC and the large amounts of goods the West imports does not change that China´s economic performance is very low. Apart form the industrial hot spots, it´s third world. But China is already the winner as gets its hand on all the know-how of the western companies that produce in China.
 
, miracles are not made by offering cheap labor.

did someone say they were by cheap labor???
I do. China is still a NIC and the large amounts of goods the West imports does not change that China´s economic performance is very low. Apart form the industrial hot spots, it´s third world. But China is already the winner as gets its hand on all the know-how of the western companies that produce in China.

China offers cheap labor and internationally competitive capitalism and thus has experienced 8% growth for 30 years making it the greatest economic miracle in human history. In fact, the switch to Republican capitalism enables it to eliminate 40% of the entire planets poverty.
 

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