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Title: More evidence of why making iPhones in the USA wouldn’t create jobs Post by: HCK on June 30, 2017, 04:05:19 pm More evidence of why making iPhones in the USA wouldn’t create jobs
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/foxconn-iphone.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1000&h=500)</div><p>Ever since then presidential candidate Donald Trump <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/01/18/donald-trump-says-he-will-force-apple-to-build-its-computers-and-things-in-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised[/url] he was ‘gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country,’ there’s been a steady stream of people pointing out why that isn’t practical – and wouldn’t do much for the U.S. economy if it were.</p> <p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/20/apple-60-minutes-special/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Cook explained[/url] that the reason Apple makes iPhones in China has little to do with the low wages there and everything to do with the local skillset, with the company’s suppliers <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/16/trump-apple-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">echoing this point[/url]. But even if Apple bowed to political pressure <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/17/report-apple-asked-foxconn-and-pegatron-to-investigate-manufacturing-iphones-in-the-united-states-as-donald-trump-import-policy-overhangs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to do it[/url], it would be unlikely to create many jobs …</p> <p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/29/us-iphone-factory-impact/#more-489501" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p><img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=489501&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=489501&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><div class="feedflare"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=O3UHl9b5eYE:ighnvmcSeIg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?a=O3UHl9b5eYE:ighnvmcSeIg:D7DqB2pKExk) </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/O3UHl9b5eYE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> Source: More evidence of why making iPhones in the USA wouldn’t create jobs (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/O3UHl9b5eYE/) |