Donald Trump Said Today That He Will Make Apple Manufacture Their Products In The USA

[OWC Jamie]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=billb]
Does this thread serve any purpose beyond insulting all of those users who have respected the "keep the politics" in the rubber room rule ?

It's news. Give it a whirl sometime, and see what happens.
Apparently you have seen none of my posts and threads. You should check some of them out.

And you know if this thread had Hillary's name instead of The Donald's in the thread title it would have been gone in 30 seconds. Our resident thin-skinned self-appointed police trolls would be falling over themselves pounding away on their worn out report this transgression buttons .

[deckeda]

By all means, let's forget all about the manufacturing aspect of this topic and imagine endless what-ifs.

[$tevie]

Well, the OP is about Trump becoming President and bossing Apple around. So frankly, this thread is just one big what-if fantasy and probably not the place to try to seriously discuss manufacturing.

[max]

mrlynn wrote:
Some say the Chinese Potemkin economy is on the verge of collapse, in which case US companies that outsource their manufacturing might have to scramble for alternatives.

/Mr Lynn

Why do you think Chinese is a Potemkin economy?
And how exactly a decrease in the rate of growth translates into a collapse?....

[max]

saintyohann wrote:
Years ago, I'm thinking 2010 or 11, Apple was talking about making some iPhones in the US and the number Tim Cook said was $14 per phone (can't remember if that quoted $14 was total labor costs or an increase in labor cost). Built a factory in Texas, and couldn't find enough people willing to do the job to run a line there. I think it ended up being shifted to refurbishing iPhones and maybe building the Mac Pro.

It was definitely a build it and they won't come...

That is correct, it is not labor costs that make the difference, but cost and ease of doing business.
It would be a worse scenario today, the entire electronic manufacturing infrastructure is absent here, while unbelievably well developed and ubiquitous in Shenzhen....

GGD wrote:
Trying to analyze these numbers to get some idea of how an iPhone is built....
So, it sounds like a "production line" is a table with 10 workers sitting around it, each spending 14.4 hours assembling an iPhone by hand.

Or maybe each production line is a 10 stage pipeline, with each worker spending 1.44 hours in their stage.

Any other guesses on how it's done? If these numbers are accurate, it still seems like a lot of human labor per phone.

Quite an accurate idea, more of the second scenario, but, yes, it is very labor intensive process, in a semi laboratory setting....

[Speedy]

Chinese workers with small hands make for excellent iPhone assemblers.

[deckeda]

Speedy wrote:
Chinese workers with small hands make for excellent iPhone assemblers.

You forgot to mention that because they all look alike, so do the products more closely get created as exact duplicates.