The number of retards believing this figure is insane
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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:
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."
Wouldn't precision tooling be done by machines
You have to have guys who can build and set up and maintain and operate those machines and be taught things, and for 40+ years we've done everything we can to steer those kinds of guys away from anything to do with manufacturing, so your potential manufacturing employee pool is going to have a lot of junkies and non-white guys in it. It might be fixable but it probably won't be fixable in under 2 years, which could turn out badly in the next election, and if we lose that one then everything Trump has done will be thrown out by President Newsom/Buttigieg/AOC in 2028.
Precision machining still exists in America, it's just all focused towards aerospace and weapons manufacturing.
Apple would simply have to pay such people a wage competitive with what they receive from aerospace and weapons production. Which would be a lot but not hit the bottom line of an individual iPhone that much given that it's mostly to do with people who have experience setting up automated factories, CAD/CAM programming etc, rather than producing a single unit of whatever.
The article is also dumb given that they're pretending the unit cost of an iPhone is $3000 rather than accurately understanding that the actual cost is vastly less and Apple simply massively overcharges, and could take a hit to their profit margin while onshoring production, or (more likely) offset the cost to their users and it'd be more like $3500 or $4000 rather than $30000 (ridiculous made up number with nothing backing it, obviously).