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A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
Submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.404media.co/a-us-made-iphone-is-pure-fantasy/
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Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 month ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And the companies that use organic slave labor will still be outcompeted by the companies that use machine labor. Machines do not die. Machines do not get sick. Machines do not grow old. If a manipulator or actuator becomes damaged, it can be repaired or replaced. Not only is AI improving rapidly, the robots grow ever more sophisticated and advanced. Then there will be no need for the poor to exist at all.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just give us about 30 or so years
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 1 month ago
just when i thought he couldn’t idiot any harder - he pours on the coal. Fucking scam artist.
craig9@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The beautiful clean coal.
theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Why is the iPhone the benchmark?
dryfter@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month ago
Yes but when it comes to OS share, Android completely dominates.
trumboner@lemmy.world 1 month 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 Maybe not the latest process node but it is not an outdated node either.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 1 month ago
It requires people who eventually jump off the roof of the building…
trueheresy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The problem is, while you and I have a problem with that, billionaires don’t.
Nexz@feddit.nl 1 month 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 1 month ago
It would require Apple to accept a dollar less in profit.
plantmoretrees@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Tim Cook and Donald Trump = Tim Crook
Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Watch out for the leopard!