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.
Tim Apple lying?!?
But this is inching to fascism.
I’ll give it a try if there’s a free version. I don’t expect it to integrate as seamlessly with my SQL Server Express DB as MS tools. But it’s worth a try. Especially when my MS Visual Studio 2013 gets too old to use. LOL
Read the book.
Those phones cost less than $100 to build so Apple could easily make them here.
MySQL is used by some pretty major operations (e.g. Facebook). It isn’t Oracle, but it not accurate to call it lightweight. Even my favored FileMaker Pro can handle tables with 10,000,000+ records related to half-a-dozen other tables, with numerous calc and summary fields. It is all a matter of throwing enough hardware at it. God Bless SSDs and NVME storage.
I have no problem with Apple building in India, if the products it builds in India are for the markets in India and surrounding countries.
Cook, like that arsehole Jobs before him, rejoice in using slave labor. All Apple devices depend upon that — which might explain in part why Apple treats its customers as slaves.
It’s nationalism. For better or worse, it appears Trump is trying to turn the clock back to the 1940s. Things will be made to last forever (again), and they had better— for what they’ll cost you!
Good—I like it that way!
And IIRC MySQL had a problem handling many simultaneous transactions. Nor, IIRC, does it do transaction handling. Admittedly, my memories of this are from years ago and newer versions of MySQL may have fixed these problems.
There is no way Americans are going to work for $5 hr or less to keep the iPhone affordable and not adding $1000 to the price. There are not hundreds of thousands of vocationally skilled workers in the US [ let alone in some city ] to do the assembling.
47 knows that US iPhone assembly is not possible, and if he forces the issue, he would destroy Apple.
From scaleyourapp.com
“ MySQL is the primary database used by Facebook for storing all social data. They started with the InnoDB MySQL database engine and then wrote MyRocksDB, which was eventually used as the MySQL Database engine.
Memcache sits in front of MySQL as a cache.
To manage BigData Facebook leverages Apache Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Apache Thrift and PrestoDB. All these are used for data ingestion, warehousing and running analytics.”
Other sites state that MySQL does fine on simultaneous transactions (especially with DB engine InnoDB) as long as you keep users per core under 128.
I use databases differently, as I work with large, complex datasets, but NO competition for resources. I am creating a large output, but utterly static. Hence, front ends for on the fly customization is MUCH more important than abolity to handle Home Depots transaction volume.
A usable front end, which for me MySQL does not have, is my main issue with it.
Thanks for clarifying.
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Who predicted it would be the GOP that would give us a centrally planned economy?
The amount of labor per phone is trivial compared to what the retail price is. They could build them inthe USA.
Do really think the labor per phone made in the USA would be 1000 per phone? Are freepers that dumb!
The labor per phone now is around $20 . Make it here and it goes to $50 a $30 increase. Big deal
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