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>If we start banning Chinese phones we'll buy American ones come in instead. Huh? America doesn't make any phones, and worse, simply does not even have the te
by magduf 8y ago
>If we start banning Chinese phones we'll buy American ones come in instead.
Huh? America doesn't make any phones, and worse, simply does not even have the technology to make phones if they wanted to. America does not have the technology needed to make the screens for them, most notably: the screen technology is all in Asia.
- gpm 8y agoIsn't a good portion of screen technology in Sourth Korea though, which is more of a US ally than a Chinese one?
- deelowe 8y agoYes. Samsung and LG are the top screen manufacturers.
- irrational 8y agoIt doesn't have the technology or the manufacturing capability?
- cphoover 8y agoApple owns the patents for it's phones. Right? They are just manufactured by foxconn (Taiwanese). Samsung is a Korean company.
- magduf 8y agoNeither. The technology is made in China or Korea, and owned by the Koreans. We couldn't build modern smartphone screens in the US without doing serious industrial espionage on our own ally, and even then setting up the manufacturing capability would cost billions, if we could get it working and not have a problem like the "capacitor plague" that happened when the Chinese tried stealing Japanese capacitor formulae back in the late 90s or early 2000s and didn't quite get it right.
- 3pt14159 8y agoI'm not unaware that iPhones are physically constructed in China. If we had tariffs on Chinese phones only a small portion of the tariff would fall on the overall cost of an iPhone.