What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.?

Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.? by wonkaWonka on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:24AM (#11882337)

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

It's like saying the natural gas and the oven belong on the printed wrapper in the list of ingredients for that cookie you just ate.

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Re:What would it cost Apple to make iPhones in the U.S.? by yompers888 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:50AM (#11882709)

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.

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