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If Apple were forced by law to manufacture iPhones exclusively in the U.S., they wouldn’t go under they’d adapt. They have the money (~$54B in liquidity), the brand loyalty, and the organizational muscle to pull it off.

There are ~7 million unemployed people in the U.S. plenty of potential labor, especially if Apple funds large-scale training and leans hard into automation. Would it be expensive? Absolutely. Costs would skyrocket. You’re probably looking at a $1,800–$2,000 iPhone. But guess what? People would still buy it.

They’d need 5–10 years to fully build out fabs, assembly plants, and domestic supply chains, but it’s feasible. TSMC is already building fabs in Arizona. Apple would just have to scale that approach to the rest of the production ecosystem.

Forced U.S. iPhone manufacturing wouldn’t kill Apple. It’d just make them the biggest American manufacturer since WWII.

The issue is like for every other major corporation in this country is that they’re just cheap bastards.

I work in the repair industry and what I tell all my clients when I do warranty work for them if it’s the difference between repairing their item or the CEO of the warranty company getting a new yacht it’s always going to be the yacht first.

No. No it doesn’t.

There are 7.1 million people unemployed in the US officially. Realistically that number is probably much, much higher.

You’re saying apple can’t hire a few hundred people to work on an assembly line?

If you offer good pay and good benefits at a decent working environment people will flock to assembly lines in the US. Christ they were basically invented here.

Of course it is. They want 1500 bucks for something with a few hundred dollars of overhead. R and d not withstanding they’ll want the same amount of profit for the phone if it’s made in America and profits have to increase year after year! They can’t make a little less profit they have to make more than before!

Hold on. Let me play some mp3s I got off Napster on my winamp while I browse the world wide Web on my Netscape.

O WB. I hope you to under and loose all your licenses and copyright.

I use proton vpn but you’ll get downvoted no matter what if you don’t use the vpn the bandwagon likes.

This kind is behaviour is a major downfall on platforms like this.

Toop

I still remember “death panels” from the Obama era.

Now it’s ai.

Whatever.

Simple. We only really need one ally! Russia. With our good and dear friend Vlad!

/S

Go ahead and search the word dildo into Amazon.

Ya… I just bought the app. It was like 6 bucks? Totally worth it since I use it all the time and I want to support the dev.

Hey you know who else made a list of banned words?

Hitler.

Hitler made a list of band words.

Chrome? A browser that’s easily replaceable with any other browser? Huh… Didn’t see that one coming.

/S

This is actually the Biff time line from back to the future.

Welcome. Don’t bother taking your shoes off.

O ya… Then you had to sit there and watch a trippy light show for three days before it actually loaded the game! 🤣

I’d say that technologically millennials really have it best over everyone else.

Us millennials had to figure out the technology as it evolved into what it is today we know how bad it really was before it got really good.

I remember back in high school around 2002 we got cable internet for the first time we had all of three megabytes download. That was tremendously fast.

Movies were in divx format and could be dled from peer to peer networks. Morpheus, zazaa, Ares.

Dang those were the days.

Remember ladies and gents. It’s not cloud storage it’s someone else’s computer.

Just got the app it’s absolutely fantastic.