Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

• rockhard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well that sucks but they sure as hell won’t be able to buy one “made in America” either. The raw materials for batteries alone would have tariffs on them as well. Unless we have massive amounts of cobalt, lithium, copper, silicon, cadmium, etc, to be able to produce these items domestically, working class and middle class Americans will not be able to afford them.

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• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What? They do. Apple sells tens of millions of iPhones each year in the US.

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  • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They did past tense. How about with a 140%+ tariff?

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    • Robbity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’ll make iPhones in India. Which is actually what they are doing right now. Or in Vietnam. Or Ethiopia. You can’t tariff everyone 140% if you want your economy to work.

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      • n_emoo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What if you dont want your economy to work?

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      • weew@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Haha as if that will stop Trump

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