They can’t be manufactured here anyway. We dont have the infrastructure.
Wait… Are you saying our modern life of convenience and technological advancement is built on the backs of exploited foreign workers and that building those things here wouldn’t be possible without an exploited slave class? I’m shocked, I say, shocked.
Anyone here remember those $10,000 gold apple watches ?
No, what were those?
I do remember someone creating three apps with different prices, most expensive being on that range. This was when the App Store was new.
When the first apple watch came out they also had models made from gold instead of steel, with luxury case etc. Don’t know why they thought it was a good plan, but it’s roll-out was way to elaborate for it be merely a marketing tric. Found you a link for more info: https://www.ablogtowatch.com/apple-watch-edition/
That, IIRC, is not supported in the recent watch OS versions.
How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?
Just move banana production to US. How much would it take? 2-3 months.
Or apple could stop making such a obscene profit. I know, I know.
It’s almost as if smartphones are not affordable once you actually pay all the people involved in making them a decent-ish wage. Who would’ve thought…
The secret ingredient is slavery.
The most expensive iPhone retails for $1200, with a manufacturing price of ~$500 and net profit of ~$700.
So if an iPhone costs $3500 to make domestically, then Apple would need to sell it for $4200 to make the same profit. But even if Trump levies his 100% tariff on China, it would still be significantly cheaper for Apple to make iPhones in China and pay 2x the manufacturing costs ($1000), add the same $700 profit, and just charge $1700 for the same model.
So in the end no new domestic manufacturing jobs are made, Apple, an American company, loses business because less people would buy at a higher price, and American consumers get shafted.
I think your estimate is flawed. The article does state $3500, but that’s consumer cost. The profit margin would already be baked into that. Barring a democracy-ending chain of events in the US, Apple wouldn’t even have time to move manufacturing to the US in a meaningful enough way to get to this price point before the end of 47’s term. $2000 iPhones with baked in consumer taxes (tariffs)? Absolutely, though.
IPhones are overrated. Mobile phones are a huge import from China as far as I know, and China is far to authoritarian for me to care.
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Probably last a third of the time too.
