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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by magduf on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:57AM (#18903908)
>If we start banning Chinese phones we'll buy American ones come in instead.

Huh? America doesn't make any phones, and worse, simply does not even have the technology to make phones if they wanted to. America does not have the technology needed to make the screens for them, most notably: the screen technology is all in Asia.

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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by gpm on Monday January 14, 2019 @12:26PM (#18904605)
Isn't a good portion of screen technology in Sourth Korea though, which is more of a US ally than a Chinese one?
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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by deelowe on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:06PM (#18908328)
Yes. Samsung and LG are the top screen manufacturers.
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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by 3pt14159 on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:22PM (#18906630)
I'm not unaware that iPhones are physically constructed in China. If we had tariffs on Chinese phones only a small portion of the tariff would fall on the overall cost of an iPhone.
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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by irrational on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:13PM (#18904987)
It doesn't have the technology or the manufacturing capability?
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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by magduf on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:52PM (#18907711)
Neither. The technology is made in China or Korea, and owned by the Koreans. We couldn't build modern smartphone screens in the US without doing serious industrial espionage on our own ally, and even then setting up the manufacturing capability would cost billions, if we could get it working and not have a problem like the "capacitor plague" that happened when the Chinese tried stealing Japanese capacitor formulae back in the late 90s or early 2000s and didn't quite get it right.
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Re:China sentences Canadian man to death in drug case linked... by cphoover on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:16PM (#18906063)
Apple owns the patents for it's phones. Right? They are just manufactured by foxconn (Taiwanese).

Samsung is a Korean company.

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