Posted on 04/10/2025 9:23:52 AM PDT by grundle
” This reflects ... Apple’s profit margin (typically 60–62%).”
I think we’ve located room for some cost increases.
Hint: Companies don’t charge the total of their costs, but what the market will bear, for their products.
you could give it a better prompt, saying something like, assuming you are a US based supply chain expert, etc. (ie, to get a deeper, more well thought out professional answer...).
My personal opinion is that once American problem solvers put their minds to this, it will get done and the US based products will be competitive, very quickly....
Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s my opinion.
Fair enough, and they owe that to their shareholders...but if their customers start making preferences known....hmmmmm
Practically all the manufacturing of a smartphone can be automated, very few humans needed................
I think this is all so short sighted. If you bring a bunch of high paying jobs back and there are jobs for everyone who is willing to do the work and improve skills etc no one is going to care if it cost more because they’ll also have more. If my income grows i’ll pay more for things and I’d manage.
Is the article making the case for lower labor costs? I’m confused..because it certainly seems like it.
Seems like a good case for doing away with federal mandated minimum wage.
Which in turn reflects the cult-like adoration many have for the Apple brand.
Equine feces. We have all of those minerals, but many if not most are sequestered by environmental set-asides, distorting both strategic availability and price. Consider Chocolate Mountain.
Maybe just defaulting to the dad with the most known kids in the US today?
Yep. Give the working class decent wages again and they’ll be higher-level consumers. Henry Ford figured that out long ago.
Yep.
So we asked a big tech google search accumulator that presents the results in conversational style rather than as a list, with all the parameters set by big tech, what it would cost to force big tech to not built it in China?
No vested interest there, no sir...
“The U.S. lacks the scale and expertise of China’s manufacturing hubs “
This is a significant disadvantage in a war. And alone is enough reason to move manufacturing processes back here.
Well that is more costly but clearly not “The End of the World As We Know It”.
I was listening to Peter Zehan talking about the impact of technology on manufacturing and farming. He said, in the US and probably only in the US the cost of modernizing and robotizing the manufacturing process and farming process can be amortized. The market is big enough and the farms are large enough to make large scale industrialization possible. He recounted the story of a shirt factory moved from China, where it employed hundreds of people at sewing machines to a fully automated US facility with two employees on staff at any time. One loaded bolts of cloth and the other managed software. The facility produced shirts at a fraction of the cost of producing in China.
As for agriculture, advances in AI and video meant a machine rolling over the rows of food could instantly assess the needs of each plant spraying with insecticide, or nutrients as required. Essentially industrial scale gardening.
The entire supply chain would be shorter and therefore cheaper. As is shipping to the final market.
When we evaluate a change, we do so assuming all else remains constant.
Wonder what samsungs profit margin is
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