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Manufacture IPhones in US to sell in the US. Manufacture IPhones in China to sell to the rest of the world. I bet that whats Apple is going to do.
by thevtm 9y ago
Manufacture IPhones in US to sell in the US.
Manufacture IPhones in China to sell to the rest of the world.
I bet that whats Apple is going to do.
- notlefthanded 9y agoThat didn't work too well with blackberry in Argentina. It's kind of an extreme case, but there are parallels that can be drawn.
- bduerst 9y agoHere's a good podcast on how terrible it was: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episode-755-the-phone-at-the-end-of-the-world http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episo... Even with the tariff incentives, the demand within the country wasn't enough to cover the economies of scale to keep manufacturing costs effective.