just when i thought he couldn’t idiot any harder - he pours on the coal. Fucking scam artist.
A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
Submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-is-pure-fantasy/
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theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Why is the iPhone the benchmark?
dryfter@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
This is also global, not even US data; iPhones are phenomenally more popular over there than anywhere else as far as I know. This is also one of the reasons some seriously begin to believe Android would be a “poor man’s phone”.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yes but when it comes to OS share, Android completely dominates.
Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Watch out for the leopard!
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Just give us about 30 or so years
trumboner@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Toyota is able to build Camrys, Highlanders, Tundras, etc. in the US. So I don’t see why we can’t have a factory in the US to build the iPhone?
Does building an iPhone require more manual labor than building a car? Maybe it requires more precision than cars, but I don’t see why we can’t train and equip people to do it here.
There are microchips being made in the US today. See Intel. Maybe not the latest process node but it is not an outdated node either.
Dragomus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It requires people who eventually jump off the roof of the building…
trueheresy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The problem is, while you and I have a problem with that, billionaires don’t.
Nexz@feddit.nl 4 days ago
You absolutely can, but the price of the workers for these kinds of things are way higher in the US as opposed to China. Also, if Apple could automate away manual labour to the point it would be economically viable they sure as heck would’ve done so already. Price increases using US-based manual labour are inevitable - its one of the major reasons why the global market is as it is today, cheap labour in developing countries.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It would require Apple to accept a dollar less in profit.
plantmoretrees@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Tim Cook and Donald Trump = Tim Crook
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Where would they get the chips and batteries?
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Probably just lean super heavily on Taiwan, and Taiwan is also pledging to build a chip factory in the US. Georgia area, IIRC.
Batteries fucking suck. Can’t live with 'em, can’t live without 'em…but they’re always saying we’re on the cusp of an exciting new battery technology. Lately, they’re touting the idea of better, more efficient sodium batteries with all organic components.
While obviously it has a ways to go to reach working parity with lithium, there are also some big pros when it comes to safety & the ridiculous availability of sodium. If we can switch to sodium batteries, China takes a fucking massive hit.
Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I thought it was Arizona that the Taiwanese company was building in.
It’s actually interesting as a sort of exception-proving-the-rule because with the chip factory they discovered they simply couldn’t run its creation without having a bunch of skilled workers come over from Taiwan. which in turn caused culture shock/clash issues between the Taiwanese and American workers.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
I also hate batteries. Batteries suck.