More evidence of why making iPhones in the USA wouldn’t create jobs<div class="feat-image">
</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>
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More evidence of why making iPhones in the USA wouldn’t create jobs
