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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by thevtm on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:34PM (#14267454)
Manufacture IPhones in US to sell in the US.

Manufacture IPhones in China to sell to the rest of the world.

I bet that whats Apple is going to do.

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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by notlefthanded on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:40PM (#14267500)
That didn't work too well with blackberry in Argentina. It's kind of an extreme case, but there are parallels that can be drawn.
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Re:Apple plans to spend $1B to support advanced manufacturin... by bduerst on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:30PM (#14267925)
Here's a good podcast on how terrible it was:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/17/515850029/episo...

Even with the tariff incentives, the demand within the country wasn't enough to cover the economies of scale to keep manufacturing costs effective.

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