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.
The iPhone costs about $250 to make now. I guess $400 to make here?
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.