Trump says Apple making iPhones in China is 'unsustainable'

Summary: Trump is pressuring Apple to move iPhone production to the US, calling manufacturing in China “unsustainable.” But Apple has long argued that China’s deep pool of skilled labor and advanced tooling makes such a move unrealistic.Trump wants Apple to start building its iPhones in the US.

Apple hasn’t actually responded to that yet. But comments made in the past by its current CEO, Tim Cook, and former CEO, Steve Jobs, have revealed that Apple thinks it’s not possible. However, according to Trump, Apple making its iPhones in China is “unsustainable.



”Making iPhones in China “unsustainable”Speaking to the press, Trump reinforced his goal of bringing more manufacturing operations back to the US. He was quoted as saying, “If you look at Apple, Apple is going to spend $500 billion building a plant. They wouldn’t be doing that if I didn’t do this.

They’d just keep building them in China. And that’s unsustainable.”Trump also hinted at the possibility that some companies could also be exempt from tariffs.

“As time goes by, we’re going to take a look at it. There are some that by the nature of the company get hit a little bit harder, and we’ll take a look at that.” He doesn’t mention Apple specifically.

However, we have heard reports in the past that companies like Apple and Tesla could potentially be exempt.The reality isn’t so clear cutWhile Trump thinks that Apple should bring iPhone manufacturing back to the US, the reality is that it isn’t so easy. In 2017, Cook gave an interview in which he spoke about the reasons why Apple chose to build its phones in China.

He dismissed the notion that it was simply about low-cost labor. Instead, he highlighted China’s expertise in tooling and also the skilled workers that the US apparently lacks.“The reason is because of the skill, the quantity of skill in one location, and the type of skill it is.

Like the products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that you have to have in tooling and working with the materials we do are state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. You know, in the U.

S. you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields.

It’s that vocational expertise is very deep.”In Walter Isaacson’s biography on Jobs, Jobs basically said the same thing. He implied that the US simply does not have skilled workers on the scale that China has.

That being said, not everyone thinks that way. Recently, one of Apple’s suppliers from China is considering moving some of its operations to the US in a bid to avoid Trump’s tariffs.The post Trump says Apple making iPhones in China is 'unsustainable' appeared first on Android Headlines.

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