The technology on which it relies was invented here and could be built here again. The consumer cost of an iPhone is due to the extraordinary profits Apple extracts from it. Those profits could pay US labor rates easily.
The technology on which it relies was invented here and could be built here again. The consumer cost of an iPhone is due to the extraordinary profits Apple extracts from it. Those profits could pay US labor rates easily.
This is absolutely false.
Yes, semiconductors and microprocessors were invented here but haven't been manufactured in America by American companies in several decades. The primary reason? Cost.
Among other obvious issues, you'd need a workforce of at least 300,000 to 500,000 skilled people to do the final assembly work on iPhones at Apple's scale. There's simply not enough people with the required skills to do that work in the US at almost any price.
That would be like taking a city the size of Boston and have it only do iPhone assembly.
Take a look at "A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy".[1]
I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones.
The "cost" argument is a thinly veiled way of saying, "We don't want to pay people in America American wages."
Our contemporary American lifestyle requires commensurate income and Apple and all these other companies can also afford to pay US wages. Just look at the money they give shareholders.
I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones.
Apple and supply chain experts disagree with you. I don't think you understand the massive scale Apple operates at. I mean, it is what it is.
* There are 1.382 billion iPhone users worldwide [1]
* Apple sells about 200 million iPhones per year, including 231 million of them in 2023
'Former Apple manufacturing engineer, Matthew Moore, told Bloomberg that “there are millions of people employed by the Apple supply chain in China,” and Apple has long insisted that the US talent pool is too small to easily replace them.'[3]
