Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 days agoOnly $4000 for the entry model. That how much is costs once the tariffs on the semiconductors has been covered, the salaries high enough to motivate people to willingly work the assembly lines now that immigrant workers are gone, and the markup needed to cover the cost of completely creating an entire supply chain from scratch as well as paying back the insane debt that results from the outrageous high risk investments this would require and that frankly no investor would want to touch with a 10 foot pole.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
That is before Apple levels of profit added on, right? Otherwise that seems a bit low.
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Or the Google tax of a few hundred bucks for the OS. Which could happen. Google is worse than Micro$uck at this point and I say this as someone who returned their OEM license before. See Revolution OS youtu.be/k0RYQVkQmWU
Even Linux is now weaponized for profits over anything else…:.::.
So argument invalid
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 days ago
?? Google pays Apple to put their search in Apple 's OS