“While it’s unclear whether Cook also considers him a friend, Trump has made it clear that he likes the Apple CEO.”
But I have read all over the news that Trump hated gays, and after the election they were all in a panic about mass arrests, and him striping them of civil rights.
HA! Who in the U.S. is going to work for 75 cents an hour?
Sooo...new iphone sells for a grand here...what’s the cost to make in China?
If Apple starts making them in the USA they will cost 2000 instead of 1000.
I use a Samsung unlocked several year old android smart phone that I paid $300 for. Works well enough for me.
Sooo...new iphone sells for a grand here...what’s the cost to make in China?
Nice, and smart, of Trump to “talk up” Apple.
So many people invested in China didn’t believe the Preident meant what he said and would do it.
Well, it is a new way of leading!
Apple loves it’s 99% profit
I’m not about to pay $1,000 for a stupid phone to call my bookie, when I can pick up a flip phone for $9.95 from Walmart.
Make a $9.95 phone, Apple, if you want my business. I don’t need a scan app to buy a stupid peanut butter cup candybar. I carry $1 bills for that.
Steve Jobs is sorely missed and would agree with me. The current bozo running Apple is dumb as a sack of used cat litter.
The feds have NO constitutional or legal say in where anybody buy or sells or makes anything.
I-Phones are not selling in China because they stole the technology and are selling the knockoffs for much cheaper. The I-Phones are not selling in the US because they cost too much. My wife has a I-Phone 5 that cost much less years ago, has about the same capability as the newest model and total maintenance cost to date has be 1 battery replacement for $49.00 plus tax.
They will need to do it with robots if they are going to make it affordable.
All well and fine about AAPL making phones in the US, but the truth is that there are so many problems making that proposition very difficult. One is there is a labor shortage - where are all these workers going to come from?
The wages paid in China are for the Chinese a good rate. It’s a living wage for them as little as it seems to us here. For them, it is also the opportunity to flee rural poverty - something most here only have a vague conception of the reality.
Some will say just use robots - but that is a lot of robots, and where do all the trained technicians that maintain the robots and all the robots come from? Are those robots made here or in China?
Next is plant size - where can a plant employing 500,000 people be built? NYC? Where do you find the land cheap enough to put it on? And all the infrastructure needed from roads to houses to suppliers to grocery stores and hair salons? Where is all of that going to be built - will APPL have to foot that bill as well?
Then there will be the mass waiver of almost every workplace and environmental regulation you can imagine.
Phones, computers from ALL electronics manufactures are built in China, Korea and Japan for reasons other that the price of labor. There is an existing huge concentrated population base with little regulations there that does not exist in the US.
This is the primary reason I love this guy.