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I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones. The "cost" argument is a thinly veiled way of saying, "We don't want to pay people in America
by dtagames 2y ago
I don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones.
The "cost" argument is a thinly veiled way of saying, "We don't want to pay people in America American wages."
Our contemporary American lifestyle requires commensurate income and Apple and all these other companies can also afford to pay US wages. Just look at the money they give shareholders.
- alwillis 2y agoI don't believe that it takes 300,000 people to assemble iPhones. Apple and supply chain experts disagree with you. I don't think you understand the massive scale Apple operates at. I mean, it is what it is. * There are 1.382 billion iPhone users worldwide [1] * Apple sells about 200 million iPhones per year, including 231 million of them in 2023 'Former Apple manufacturing engineer, Matthew Moore, told Bloomberg that “there are millions of people employed by the Apple supply chain in China,” and Apple has long insisted that the US talent pool is too small to easily replace them.'[3] [1]: https://backlinko.com/iphone-users https://backlinko.com/iphone-users [2]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/ [3]: https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/former-apple-engineer-on-why-iphones-cannot-be-made-in-the-us/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/former-apple-engineer-on-why-...
- throw310822 2y agoTo be true, it would be enough to produce in the US only the US share of iPhone purchases. Although this would partly defy the purpose of the tariffs.
- alwillis 2y agoApple’s board of directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.25 per share of the Company’s common stock. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/01/apple-reports-first-quarter-results/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/01/apple-reports-first-q...