Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?
by jean_claude on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:21PM
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I think the takeaway from his statements are that it is virtually impossible to source the necessary raw materials that go into producing modern electronics from any one country.
Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?
by aab0 on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:52PM
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Some of the points are bogus, like the rare earths thing; they used to be mined in the USA just fine. But China was cheaper, especially since they didn't price in the negative externalities.
Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?
by tzs on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:47PM
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> If I'm not holding it in my hands, right now, it doesn't make the list.
I don't see why things that are used during manufacture but do not end up in your hand should be excluded. The question being asked in that section of the article is whether or not the product could be produced entirely with materials and labor from the US, and so everything involved in making it should count.
Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?
by wonkaWonka on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:24AM
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The tone of the article suggests that an iPhone is made of these elements, moreso than it does that they are made with these elements.
has about 75 elements in it
Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?
by yompers888 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:50AM
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Given the context, though, parent's comment is reasonable. The isolationist drive that would bring iphone manufacturing and all the associated mining back to the US would go hand-in-hand with a very isolationist economy, in which we'd presumably not be able to get anything from other countries.
The thought exercise of in-sourcing everything that ever contributed to anything that eventually goes into a phone helps to point out how the idea of disentangling ourselves from the global market is absurd.
The thing that lands in the box. Not the catalysts, and substances required for processes used during manufacture.
If I'm not holding it in my hands, right now, it doesn't make the list.
Some of those I'm not buying into.