There is new Trumpnado advisory warning
All Leftist should seek shelter...
Posted on 11/17/2016 11:19:41 AM PST by barmag25
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Sources say Apple has asked its assemblers to look into making iPhones in the U.S. © AP
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.
"Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S.," a source said. "Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns."
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Donald Trump exclaimed that “we’re going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries.”
Key Apple assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has been studying the possibility of moving iPhone production to America.
IMO the best way I’ve seen to solve the trade deficit would be to implement a system of Import Certificates (ICs) as envisioned by Warren Buffett - http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/10/352872/index.htm
This is good and has implications of geopolitical significance that are good.
The Trump Effect.
Something to keep in mind is that most of the manufacturing that comes back to the USA is going to need a lot less people in the factories. It’s going to require lots of people with manufacturing automation development/qa/operations skills and experience. The bulk of the work is going to be done by machines under people in front of computers & handhelds doing process management work. There will be far fewer assembly workers than in days past.
The iPhone costs about $250 to make now. I guess $400 to make here?
They know it plays well in most of America..Bring the factories back..Bring the manufacturing back..Then worry about the jobs..No one has even bothered to force them to cone back until Trump...These guys see the end of the story..They don’t want to get steamrolled by the Trump train
True, but at least those people looking after the factory and machines will be US residents.
Apple is just playing the Chinese with their new “Trump” card.
Foxconn may have factories here, but they will ship their own workers in and out of the US on rotations. They will hire a few American workers, the majority are Chinese nationals. I have been in two Foxconn OEMs. That is what they did when I worked at Compaq years ago.
Yep, they’ll bring their factory here along with their ChiCom factory slave labor management style. Ought to work well in southside Chicago, Detroit or the east side of DC.
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Apple has been making iMacs in Elk Grove, California, since 2012, and Mac Pros in Austin, Texas, since 2013. Many of the parts of the iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads are already made in the US. Whenever it makes economic and practical sense to make something in the US, Apple is already doing it.
I’m thinking it would make a great illegals trap in the LA , Houston or Tucson sanctuary areas versus dead urbana enclaves....
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