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Re:How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by tikhonj on Saturday January 21, 2012 @03:50PM (#3494551)
Short answer: obscene amounts of money.

The issue isn't that the US can't make an iPhone, it's that it would be expensive (particularly up-front).

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Re:How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work by gumbo on Saturday January 21, 2012 @04:43PM (#3494745)
They say the iPhone would be expensive... If they were to tell the truth they would said: our profit margin won't be so high.
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