Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 05/15/2025 5:52:51 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he told Apple CEO Tim Cook that he doesn’t want the tech giant to build its products in India, taking shots at the company’s moves to diversify production away from China and urging him to pivot Stateside.
“I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said. “I said to him, ‘my friend, I treated you very good. You’re coming here with $500 billion, but now I hear you’re building all over India.’ I don’t want you building in India.”
Trump was referencing Apple’s commitment of a $500 billion investment in the U.S. which was announced in February.
Apple has been ramping up production in India with the aim of making around 25% of global iPhones in the country in the next few years, as it looks to reduce reliance on China, where around 90% of its flagship smartphone is currently assembled.
“I said to Tim, I said, ‘Tim look, we treated you really good, we put up with all the plants that you build in China for years, now you got to build us. We’re not interested in you building in India, India can take care of themselves ... we want you to build here’,” Trump said. The U.S. president added that Apple is going to be “upping” its production in the United States, without disclosing further details.
CNBC has reached out to Apple.
Trump made the comments about the U.S. tech giant while discussing Washington’s broader trade relations with India.
Trump said India is “one of the highest tariff nations in the world,” adding the country has offered a deal to the U.S. where “they are willing to literally charge us no tariff.”
Under the White House’s trade protectionist policies revealed in April, Trump has imposed a so-called “reciprocal tariff” of 26% on Indian goods, which has been temporarily lowered until July.
Apple’s main assembly partner in India, Foxconn, received approval from the Indian government on Monday to build a semiconductor plant in the country in a joint venture with HCL Group.
Apple has spent decades building up its supply chain in China, but has looked to other countries like Vietnam and India to expand its production capacity.
But experts generally agree that moving production of the iPhone to the U.S. would be highly unlikely because of the final price of the end product. Varying estimates put the cost of an iPhone between $1,500 to $3,500, if it were made in the US.
Apple currently makes very few products in the U.S. Currently, the Cupertino giant produces the Mac Pro in the U.S. In February, it announced it would launch a manufacturing facility in Texas to produce servers for Apple Intelligence, its AI system.
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
As high tech as they are, looks like Apple (and others) could build completely automated factories to build their products in the USA so ‘labor’ costs would be minimal...........
As it is, the top line iPhones cost over $1k. I’m really not interested in paying $2k or $3k for one. I doubt many people are. As good as Trump’s powers of persuasion may be, I doubt we will be seeing iPhones built primarily in the US.
While true....we kill ourselves with regulatory requirements non-existent elsewhere.
How many ‘permits’ are required in developing the facilities here vs. there? How long does this increase the time to build? What is the time-to-market cost? etc.
It’s a challenge, I respect the need for them - like not having buildings that fall down, or electrical fires that can be avoided. But we seem to also worry about the ‘rare lizard’ that has seen a population decline because ‘human bad’.
It’s that madness that still hurts us.
it’s certainly a rational bet on your end....not much innovation on the company’s part since Jobs’ passing. Yet it’s trading at a 30x+ forward P/E with single-digit earnings growth.
I think Apple products are way overpriced anyway and you can’t even fix a lot of it yourself ,LOL
It is not the role of the President of the United States to tell individual companies where to produce their products. Dictators tell companies how to operate their businesses, not elected presidents.
The role of the president is to devise, sell to Congress, and implement regulatory, legal, and tax policies that create economic conditions favorable to companies locating manufacturing facilities in the United States. Where individual companies, such as Apple, decide to locate is for the company management and board of directors to decide.
The founding fathers would be shocked to hear a president telling the CEO of one of the largest and most successful American companies how to do his job. They would consider such direction an act of tyranny.
I disagree. Yes, Apple is high tech. But they have a knack for optimizing the end consumer experience. They don't seem to do well on back-end processing and automation. For example, their attempt at a server OS was short lived. And their developer tools aren't conducive to doing a lot of database stuff. I'm not saying it's impossible to use Apple developer tools for backend database and automation. I'm saying that I, an iphone user, wouldn't pick Apple for backend or automation.
That just means the people they have right now aren’t proficient in that area. They can hire the right people for those jobs............
$1k, $2k, heck make them $5k or $10k or shoot the moon with $50k and people will still throw their money away on them. It’ll be a cold day before I forgive them not cooperating with the police on something.
With India’s filthy polluted waterways, we need to get our meds back home.
I get the opposite impression when I read founding father documents. I would suggest they could not imagine entanglements on the level of US industry today.
There is a difference between encouraging and telling.
Apple...
What you sell in the US...
Build in the US...
Like Henry Ford knew when he raised the wages of his workers
You need Americans to buy your products ...so
Americans need to have jobs that make them the money to buy your products
You may be right, but mainly that it doesn’t scale. For the smaller company I was working at, Apple’s Mac Server/Server OS was GREAT! It doesn’t help when you change processors every few years.
For databases, I have never thrown anything at FileMaker Pro in terms of size that it couldn’t handle. It doesn’t really handle SQL natively (and I am not a SQL programmer), and it is VERY tricky to coax a double dimensioned sort for ranking purposes) out of it. But it runs rings around Access for front end and report generation.
Here’s the quote that I found off-putting:
“I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said. “I said to him, ‘my friend, I treated you very good.’”
President Trump tends to be fixated on personal relationships, sometimes to the point of emphasizing them over policies. How many times has he hailed Xi as a great friend?
The very idea that a company or CEO is “treated good” is pretty wacky. Why should the US government treat ANYONE good or bad except if the policy matches the national interest? And if the policy aligns with the national interest, it is not a matter of good or bad or favoritism.
Politics is wacky.
I guess MySQL is alright for a lightweight DB. I thought about using it for my personal things (like storing market data with my C# program and later querying it to generate reports ad hoc when I lead a financial small group and people ask questions about retiring right before a market crash like 2000 or 2008). But since I already need for my quasi-retirement-but-not-really either Windows for a SQL Server backend, or Linux for an Oracle backend, I go with Windows for my laptop so at least I can run free SQL Server Express (free as long as db size doesn't exceed 10 GB) on my personal laptop to play with TSQL for my personal data stuff (including exporting my solar inverter telemetry into the TSQL db and studying how my inverter settings impact throughput). Especially given MS Visual Studio's development IDE (runs better on Windows). For whatever reason, I haven't seen a comparable IDE for Java or anything else like Studio.
For whatever reason, I haven’t seen a comparable IDE for Java or anything else like Studio.
Have you looked at IntelliJ?
No I haven’t looked at IntelliJ. Is it better than JDeveloper and NetBeans and Eclipse?
I would say so.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.