>With Silicon Valley CEOs terrified that President Donald Trump will retaliate against offshoring production, Apple is already preparing to move iPhone production back to America.
>Breitbart News warned that if the Trump administration is moving to “Make America Great Again!,” Silicon Valley tech firms could be the prime target of 45 percent tariffs on offshore supply chains,
>Tim Cook had told CBS News’ 60 Minutes in December 2015 that Apple could not move its iPhones production back to the U.S., because America lacked enough skilled workers.
>It seems that since the election of Donald Trump as President, Apple and soon the rest of Silicon Valley may have discovered that America does have enough skilled workers to make high-tech devices.
I can't wait for Apple to slowly die when they are forced to sell iPhones for $2000 and watch people complain that they are no longer employing slave labor.
>overpriced as is >$7.25 minimum wage >implying apple is gonna let that cut into their profit margins >implying american manufacturing is a good thing for the poorfags >implying the $7.25 minwage poorfags are gonna be able to maintain their iPhone contracts anymore Please tell me why people/Trump thought American (tech) manufacturing was a good idea?
Jace Johnson
>Gayapple man goes to congress >WE WANT U 2 BRING BACK UR PRODUCTION 2 AMERIKA >We can't do that >YES YOU CAN WHY NOT >because America lacked enough skilled workers. >Okay nevermind then ur free 2 go.
Carter Hernandez
>back to America >before iphones were cheaper this means the new iphone will be even more cost effective. android poorfag pajeets completely and utterly btfo
Colton Nguyen
iPhone makes I think 120$ of pure profit.
They could lose 20$ and not care.
And I'm not talking manufacturing costs, I'm talking RND, Marketing everything.
Noah Morgan
b-because it kills a-a-apple you b-b-baka
Juan Smith
>120$ pure profit It literally costs them close to $200, max, to make any given iPhone. Selling that off contract yields them a profit of at least $400.
Robert Campbell
>American iphones will be cheaper than chinkphones
ANDROID IS BANKRUPT AND FINISHED
Easton Evans
he's not even officially pres yet
UNDER BUDGET AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Michael Murphy
The reason why they can't is because there's no companies like foxconn in the united states
Parker Adams
>because America lacked skilled workers Doesn't he mean "because American lacked people who work for pennies an hour and don't have any rights?" One thing that always struck me as odd about the tech crowd is that they think they're those kind of self-righteous superior beings, but end up doing all sorts of shady shit in the name of profits. It's not like everyone already knows that iPhones are made in China just because the country doesn't give a shit to its workers.
Jeremiah Gomez
Yes, it's not like the people assembling iPhones by hand are particularly skilled. Apple will probably introduce more automation if they do bring manufacturing back to the U.S. so they can employ 50 people in a factory instead of 1000.
Grayson Robinson
>breitbart.com
Elijah Flores
muh jerbs
Levi Jenkins
The God Emperor Trump will save your comfy tech job from Mr. Poo
Jack Hall
You are talking about a 17% drop in profits retard
Evan James
no starving chinese villagers are super skilled, also exploiting them is ok because theyre liberal
Owen Gutierrez
>breitbart Fuck off back to Sup Forums
Isaac Russell
>America does have enough skilled workers to make high-tech devices.
So, that means that those sweatshop workers are highly skilled worker by Apple standars? Why are they paid a joke of a salary then?
Matthew Taylor
True, nothing to scoff at but they could just increase the price and say "Proudly designed and Assembled in America" and charge an extra $50.
Oliver Fisher
>because America lacked enough skilled workers.
lmao
aka lacks 50k gooks willing to work for 2 cents an hour
Joshua Robinson
Apple products dont cost this much just because they arbitarily set it at a high price, its a calculated price that depends on their brand esteem and the consumers willness to pay for it, i doubt that writing that its assembled in the USA will matter to the rest of the globe that will see the price spike
Blake Nelson
not bad compared to having to eat a 35% tariff if they produce in china
Jace Foster
>breitbart
Keep your Sup Forums news in your Sup Forums containment board.
Jonathan Cooper
Why can't we just have cheap labor and automation, and then use a cut of corporate savings to provide for socialist policies? Isn't that the point of cheap labor and automation, so that we don't need to be forced to perform menial labor and can afford to spend our time enriching ourselves and being creative / innovative? Why do we have to insist on linking work with the ability to afford subsistence when it isn't necessary for us anymore?
But in the third world, they can actually benefir from menial labor jobs. That's why they choose to work them. If they were slaves, you'd be right.
If you'd love nothing more than to tighten a screw over and over 8 hours a day then be my guest, but why insist that you shouldn't be able to afford a living unless you can do that, since we can afford better?
Oliver Gutierrez
They'll only start funding such policies when they realize there's no one left to buy their products. Which is a long road from where we are.
>8 hours a day More like 20 hours a day. They sleep in the factory and shit.
Carson Wood
The real problem is the electronics assembly networks in the US are no where near as strong as in China
Kevin Smith
Sure, but a price increase will just make the brand more luxurious and desirable as a status symbol. People are willing to pay $3000 for a MacBook without standard USB ports and nearly $1000 for an iPhone with 128GB and 256GB of NAND, I don't think a $50 price hike would harm Apple.
Angel Diaz
>Why can't we just have cheap labor and automation, and then use a cut of corporate savings to provide for socialist policies? First a company needs to think it's worth it to set up factories to do this...
Charles Barnes
test
Chase Bennett
>Breitbart Lmao
Alexander Evans
Rather than raising tax on corporations it's better to introduce more laws that prevent them from giving jobs to some poor chinks so they can be less poor, then with even more regulations we make them give job without minimum wage to our countrymen, who instead of having social benefits and being able to educate themselves for a better job or just be neets have to work their asses in factories for pennies.
Daniel Watson
>Take a business class >Have to run a faux business >Everybody wants to be the Apple of companies >I kind of scoff and focus on working the numbers >Dump a shitton of money on advertising and churn out mediocre products >Despite myself, I end up inadvertently emulating Apple >I had the best profit margins while only objectively having a mediocre product
Jeremiah Young
are there real huma nudes?
Kayden Lewis
woah wait what? Now you have my attention...
Justin Johnson
Maybe this may result in an iPhone that's 200-300 bucks unlocked.
Michael Cox
>muh white power
Lincoln Reed
Another populist policy that surelly will backfire for the consumers. While bringing manufacturing to america is a good thing for everyone, less reliance on the gooks, the components necessary for product manufacturing are still going to be made in China, and importation will be needed.
Component production are a really dirty industry, and because of environment laws and air quality standards, no company in their right mind would bring back real manufacturing, and so the so needed components would be imported and the all the taxes would be passed on the consumers.
So you have 7 bucks an hour sweatshops making products that their workers cant't buy this situation does not solve real issues only makes the big government looks good on statistics. And that's the problem with populist governments.
Chase Martin
are you saying he will bring even more industries? holy fucking based. it's going to be a second industrial revolution for america
Cooper Cook
Trump wants to rape the environment though
Evan Roberts
Or they could sell at a lower profit margin and be just fine.
Jace White
Can't fucking wait. Jobs for the Americans.
Owen Watson
It's give and take you fuck.
They will be forced to manufacture more here but it will be dampened by a greatly reduced or eliminated minimum wage.
Trump is clever. They'll get the made-in-America benefit while saving cash.
Juan Morris
>believing corp shill >America lacks factory workers >"You need to fix other issues look at these other issues" You Americans might be retarded (you nominated Trump and Hilary) but not "cannot put screw into slow" useless Get to work faggots and stop listening to corps
Gabriel Bailey
Breitbart.com? OP on suicide watch
Camden Martinez
>APPLEKEKS ON SUICIDE WATCH
How dumb do you have to be to realize this means all American companies which make electronics, not just Apple?
Owen Williams
>when leftist find out their working class actually wants something in return for their loyalty You've been getting to offshore and enjoy the iPhone Starbucks lifestyle for decades while the people your purported to care for as the downtrodden were left to die in empty rustbelt towns. Now you're going to suffer their wrath.
Ironically it was the Democrats who predicted this for decades.
Aaron Ortiz
>People are willing to pay $3000 for a MacBook without standard USB ports
USB-C is a universal standard you stupid cunt.
Dominic Lewis
People are still going to buy it because Apple has a monopoly on retards
Samuel Baker
>economist.com
Ian Wright
>let me plug my USB C into my USB 2.0 port lel kek lmao brrrt fucking idiot
Brody Ortiz
>le containment board
If you haven't watched the news, Sup Forums took over the country
William Cox
>, because America lacked enough skilled workers. oh please as if that's the core reason, do people actually eat that shit up?
The goal of a corporation is to minimize manu costs. That's clearly not going to happen in a developed country like the US
It's hilarious when liberals stuck in their own bubble are delusional enough to start thinking political rhetoric is going to be implemented in real life
Jordan Green
>es I think 120$ of pure profit. you're wrong it's almost certain to be a way higher margin
Hudson Edwards
>breitbart
pls post a real source.
Ryan Powell
to the point where they're cucking themselves into thinking "hurr durr third world shithole where everyone cheats on their tests" is somehow producing prodigies
Easton Cooper
APPLEL
LITERALLY I T E R A L L Y
BANKRUPT
iTODDLERS
ON
SUICIDE
WATCH
Aaron Rivera
I never understood the prodigy meme
It's either someone with a mental disorder that can do one thing well and is often incapable of functioning in other areas
OR
It's someone that has been trained from birth to master one thing and as a result has lost any chance at having a well rounded life
The most successful (whatever metric you use for success) tend to be those that are well rounded and not "prodigies" because they can function in a real world that requires a large range of skillsets
Jace Anderson
>I can't wait for Apple to slowly die when they are forced to sell iPhones for $2000 Be careful what you wish for.
Apple has by far the biggest profit margins and cash stash, everybody else is operating on razor thin margins.
This means Apple could be the only company to absorb the hike in labour short term, to drive every other manufacturer operating on slim profits, out of the market.
And when that happens and a monopoly is created, 2000$ iPhones and 5000$ macbooks will be the *only* tech products available.
I sure don't like this prospect, and neither should you, dumb cunt.
Jose Anderson
We run this country now, libcuck.
Levi Butler
This is why I despise people, education and business in general.
