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Apple could make iPhones in US in future: sources
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Topic Started: Nov 17 2016, 02:05 PM (418 Views)
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Nov 17 2016, 02:05 PM
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Apple could make iPhones in US in future: sources
TAIPEI -- iPhones might one day soon carry "Made in America" labels.
Key Apple assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has been studying the possibility of moving iPhone production to the U.S., sources told the Nikkei Asian Review.
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Nov 17 2016, 02:21 PM
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..."Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double," the source said."
Yes - This is what a "great" America looks like

I wonder if these workers are unionized...?
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Nov 17 2016, 02:49 PM
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I will believe it when I see it.
Google did make phones here for a couple years while it owned Motorola but even they moved production back to China.
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Nov 17 2016, 03:51 PM
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is Apple just floating that story to appease President Elect Trump?
Or might they make a more expensive "made in the USA" iPhone - put a plant in a place like Detroit or Memphis & allow Apple to benefit from Trumps new corporate tax plan...
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Nov 17 2016, 03:53 PM
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is Apple just floating that story to appease President Elect Trump?
Or might they make a more expensive "made in the USA" iPhone - put a plant in a place like Detroit or Memphis & allow Apple to benefit from Trumps new corporate tax plan... No, I do remember seeing them do some planning stuff on this last year. They are considering it but Trump had little to do with it. The US plant would mainly be final assembly and customization. Their hope is that if the do that part here people won't think of the Chinese laborers committing suicide because of the work conditions in the FoxConn factories.
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Nov 17 2016, 03:55 PM
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..."Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double," the source said."Yes - This is what a "great" America looks like  I wonder if these workers are unionized...? One thing's for sure...they all have jobs!
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Nov 17 2016, 04:32 PM
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is Apple just floating that story to appease President Elect Trump?
Or might they make a more expensive "made in the USA" iPhone - put a plant in a place like Detroit or Memphis & allow Apple to benefit from Trumps new corporate tax plan...
No, I do remember seeing them do some planning stuff on this last year. They are considering it but Trump had little to do with it. The US plant would mainly be final assembly and customization. Their hope is that if the do that part here people won't think of the Chinese laborers committing suicide because of the work conditions in the FoxConn factories. This is correct. Apple has been working on the technologies needed to move production back to the US for a couple years now. It will not result in massive new jobs because to keep their price point the whole phone has to be basically assembled by machines. Right now the technologies do not exist to do that but Apple is spending a decent amount of money to try and get there.
On-shoring has been a move for some time now, at least five years.
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Nov 17 2016, 04:40 PM
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..."Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double," the source said."Yes - This is what a "great" America looks like  I wonder if these workers are unionized...?
One thing's for sure...they all have jobs! Yes. - If you consider earning $2.50 an hour a "job"...
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Nov 17 2016, 04:42 PM
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..."Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double," the source said."Yes - This is what a "great" America looks like  I wonder if these workers are unionized...?
One thing's for sure...they all have jobs!
Yes. - If you consider earning $2.50 an hour a "job"... That probably depends on cost of living in the area.
I am guessing you never read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?"
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..."Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double," the source said."Yes - This is what a "great" America looks like  I wonder if these workers are unionized...?
One thing's for sure...they all have jobs!
Yes. - If you consider earning $2.50 an hour a "job"...
That probably depends on cost of living in the area. I am guessing you never read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?" Yes, I have read it. But I fail to see what connection it has to workers getting $2.50 per hour in 2016.
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Nov 17 2016, 05:10 PM
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..."Making iPhones in the U.S. means the cost will more than double," the source said."Yes - This is what a "great" America looks like  I wonder if these workers are unionized...?
One thing's for sure...they all have jobs!
Yes. - If you consider earning $2.50 an hour a "job"...
That probably depends on cost of living in the area. I am guessing you never read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?"
Yes, I have read it. But I fail to see what connection it has to workers getting $2.50 per hour in 2016. Well, this is going to be long but hopefully it will refresh your memory. Everyone else just skip past.
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They had the “protection” system in full force here, whereas we were working along down toward free-trade, by easy stages, and were now about half way. Before long, Dowley and I were doing all the talking, the others hungrily listening. Dowley warmed to his work, snuffed an advantage in the air, and began to put questions which he considered pretty awkward ones for me, and they did have something of that look: “In your country, brother, what is the wage of a master bailiff, master hind, carter, shepherd, swineherd?” “Twenty-five milrays a day; that is to say, a quarter of a cent.” The smith’s face beamed with joy. He said: “With us they are allowed the double of it! And what may a mechanic get—carpenter, dauber, mason, painter, blacksmith, wheelwright, and the like?” “On the average, fifty milrays; half a cent a day.” “Ho-ho! With us they are allowed a hundred! With us any good mechanic is allowed a cent a day! I count out the tailor, but not the others—they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving times they get more—yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen milrays a day. I’ve paid a hundred and fifteen myself, within the week. ‘Rah for protection—to Sheol with free-trade!” And his face shone upon the company like a sunburst. But I didn’t scare at all. I rigged up my pile-driver, and allowed myself fifteen minutes to drive him into the earth—drive him all in —drive him in till not even the curve of his skull should show above ground. Here is the way I started in on him. I asked: “What do you pay a pound for salt?” “A hundred milrays.” “We pay forty. What do you pay for beef and mutton—when you buy it?” That was a neat hit; it made the color come. “It varieth somewhat, but not much; one may say seventy-five milrays the pound.” “We pay thirty-three. What do you pay for eggs?” “Fifty milrays the dozen.” “We pay twenty. What do you pay for beer?” “It costeth us eight and one-half milrays the pint.” “We get it for four; twenty-five bottles for a cent. What do you pay for wheat?” “At the rate of nine hundred milrays the bushel.” “We pay four hundred. What do you pay for a man’s tow-linen suit?” “Thirteen cents.” “We pay six. What do you pay for a stuff gown for the wife of the laborer or the mechanic?” “We pay eight cents, four mills.” “Well, observe the difference: you pay eight cents and four mills, we pay only four cents.” I prepared now to sock it to him. I said: “Look here, dear friend, what’s become of your high wages you were bragging so about a few minutes ago? ”—and I looked around on the company with placid satisfaction, for I had slipped up on him gradually and tied him hand and foot, you see, without his ever noticing that he was being tied at all. “What’s become of those noble high wages of yours?—I seem to have knocked the stuffing all out of them, it appears to me.” But if you will believe me, he merely looked surprised, that is all! he didn’t grasp the situation at all, didn’t know he had walked into a trap, didn’t discover that he was in a trap. I could have shot him, from sheer vexation. With cloudy eye and a struggling intellect he fetched this out: “Marry, I seem not to understand. It is proved that our wages be double thine; how then may it be that thou’st knocked therefrom the stuffing?—an miscall not the wonderly word, this being the first time under grace and providence of God it hath been granted me to hear it.” Well, I was stunned; partly with this unlooked-for stupidity on his part, and partly because his fellows so manifestly sided with him and were of his mind—if you might call it mind. My position was simple enough, plain enough; how could it ever be simplified more? However, I must try: “Why, look here, brother Dowley, don’t you see? Your wages are merely higher than ours in name , not in fact .” “Hear him! They are the double—ye have confessed it yourself.” “Yes-yes, I don’t deny that at all. But that’s got nothing to do with it; the amount of the wages in mere coins, with meaningless names attached to them to know them by, has got nothing to do with it. The thing is, how much can you buy with your wages? —that’s the idea. While it is true that with you a good mechanic is allowed about three dollars and a half a year, and with us only about a dollar and seventy-five—” “There—ye’re confessing it again, ye’re confessing it again!” “Confound it, I’ve never denied it, I tell you! What I say is this. With us half a dollar buys more than a dollar buys with you—and THEREFORE it stands to reason and the commonest kind of common-sense, that our wages are higher than yours.” He looked dazed, and said, despairingly: “Verily, I cannot make it out. Ye’ve just said ours are the higher, and with the same breath ye take it back.” “Oh, great Scott, isn’t it possible to get such a simple thing through your head? Now look here—let me illustrate. We pay four cents for a woman’s stuff gown, you pay 8.4.0, which is four mills more than double . What do you allow a laboring woman who works on a farm?” “Two mills a day.” “Very good; we allow but half as much; we pay her only a tenth of a cent a day; and—” “Again ye’re conf—” “Wait! Now, you see, the thing is very simple; this time you’ll understand it. For instance, it takes your woman 42 days to earn her gown, at 2 mills a day—7 weeks’ work; but ours earns hers in forty days—two days short of 7 weeks. Your woman has a gown, and her whole seven weeks wages are gone; ours has a gown, and two days’ wages left, to buy something else with. There—now you understand it!”
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American i-phones will be robot assembled. The entire human workforce will be able to take its lunch break in a single Subway.
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