According to the American Minister of Her, Howard Lutnick, Apple is only waiting for the development of precise robot arms to build iPhones in the US. CEO Tim Cook recently told him that Apple did not want so many people to be employed abroad.
Lutnick told the US Economic station CNBC. But you need robot arms that can work exactly and in large quantities. As soon as that is in sight, Apple will produce in the United States, Cook has promised him.
American employees would then maintain these automated factories instead of screwing in, Lutnick said. A few weeks ago he was also enthusiastic about TV: “The army of millions and millions of people who use small screws to produce iPhones – something like that will come to America.” Now he said that this statement was torn out of the context.
Trump wants to force manufacturers with high import rates to move production to the US. For important electronics such as smartphones and laptops, however, there was a provisional exception.
Trump wants iPhones from the US.
The Minister of Trump – and also Trump – had repeatedly said that the iPhone production in the US was possible and desirable. Most of most iPhones are built in China, even if Apple has expanded production in India and Vietnam in recent years. A trigger was temporary bottlenecks for Corona-Lockdown in China, who demonstrated the risks of the hanging of just one country.
$ 3500 for an iPhone?
At the same time, the supply chains have been from Apple, but also other large electronics manufacturers in Asia. Moreover, the labor costs there are considerably lower than in the US. If Apple had built its iPhones in a factory in West Virginia or New Jersey, the price of a device was $ 3500 ($ 3077), analyst warned then recently for the investment company Wedbus.
If the group only moved ten percent of the supply chain to the United States, it would cost him three years and $ 30 billion, Ives estimated in the CNN news channel. So far, Apple has not commented on the discussion that has been running for weeks.
Source: Krone
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