The number of retards believing this figure is insane - Kotaku In Action 2

The number of retards believing this figure is insane (twitter.com)

posted 4 months ago by evilplushie 4 months ago by evilplushie +75 / -2

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– ernsithe 34 points 4 months ago +34 / -0

Let me guess, they took the NRE of all the lines that produce anything that goes into an iPhone and divided by the number of units sold in a year? Or did they not even bother with that and just make it up?

You don't hate bloggers enough.

Edit: It's even more retarded. Their logic is:

So forcing Apple to manufacture only in the United States means that in a best case scenario you probably go from the ability to produce hundreds of millions of iPhones per year to producing single-digit millions per year at a much higher per-unit cost.

They took the price of an iPhone and multiplied it by 100. With no source for the numbers other than "precision tooling is hard and America would have to re-learn it."

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– yeldarb1983 5 points 4 months ago +5 / -0

...how is that even an argument? don't we usually produce the precision tooling here in the first place?

maybe i'm out of the loop on this, but that was my understanding.

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– Sumsuch 16 points 4 months ago +16 / -0

...how is that even an argument?

Because they need some reason to justify aiding the demolition of the USA without feeling like traitors.

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– yeldarb1983 2 points 4 months ago +2 / -0

hey, i could be wrong, maybe we don't actually make the precision tooling any more...

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