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Device Assembly in the US would be very interesting.
by not_literally 3y ago
Device Assembly in the US would be very interesting.
- fsflover 3y agoPurism already do this.
- jagger27 3y agoSo does Apple with the Mac Pro and a ton of historical pre-Intel Macs.
- fsflover 3y agoBut not with phones.
- DrBenCarson 3y agoYes bc iPhones are a much more global product than MacBooks.
- DRW_ 3y agoThey don't do it with the MacBooks either, just Mac Pros.
- DrBenCarson 3y agoMacBooks don’t exist anymore
- akhosravian 3y agoLiterally every single Laptop Apple sells is branded as “MacBook”. Its really adds nothing to point out someone didn’t add the word “Pro” or “Air”.
- DRW_ 3y agoI was using your terminology.
- YourDadVPN 3y agoIs that why Librem 5s cost 10x other phones with similar hardware?
- fsflover 3y agoThis is why Librem 5 USA costs $2k. Original Librem 5 costs a lot for other reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656355.
- e-clinton 3y agoCurious how many dollars it would add to each iPhone.
- bluGill 3y agoThat depends. The US is really cheap if your factory is fully automated, and Apple makes enough phones that full automation seems like it should be a win. For smaller production runs cheap labor is cheaper than the cost of building automation. Optimizing these curves is hard. (Note that China is really a lot cost of labor country anymore, and so production is moving away, but this is a long slow process, not to mention China is investing in automation and reportedly doing well)