President Donald Trump stated that Apple could create computerized production plants in the US to produce iPhones at the same price they are being produced at now after threatening to levy tariffs against the company.

Goddamn how fucking stupid is this guy?

  • Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    21 days ago

    I can see concepts of a theory of a plan of how the US could try to bring manufacturing back and it could work if they had a 20-year plan to raise tariffs by 1% a year and promote long-term subsidies for education and factory/infrastructure construction and to build a political consensus…but that would take lots of skill and discipline…this…dude wants to break everything, build factories and know-how overnight, lol. All while kicking out immigrants, so you have both a shortage of labour, inputs and products.

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
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      20 days ago

      Right? What’s the point if it doesn’t create jobs? I guess it’s still “winning” to take jobs away from China, but who’s going to have the money to buy a “made in the USA“ iPhone?

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I’m so happy for apple! They’re fucked either way. They can no longer depend on Americans to buy their products. I wonder if shithead will eventually have to bail them out, and then take a cut of their profits.

    • mriguy@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      He’s already given him at least one, like all of the other tech billionaires at the inauguration.

      But what they failed to understand was that one of Trump’s major innovations was moving corruption from a one time payment to a subscription model.

      Karma’s a bitch.

  • Ragnor@feddit.dk
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    20 days ago

    One would have thought that he at least talked a bit with Elon about his experiences with the topic.

    I have experience with designing manufacturing equipment, and it really isn’t as easy as you may think.

      • Ragnor@feddit.dkEnglish
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        20 days ago

        That was Musks plan for the Tesla factories and such, but he had to give up on much of the automation plans.

        Machines are too bad at handling deviations from standard measurements or accidents, and the delays these things can cause when there aren’t many people on the site means that the savings on labor quickly gets eaten up.