Little Bonta isn’t going to do anything. The president has the authority to impose tarriffs and exercise trade policy. Tarriffs ate a trade tool. And he’s using them to get things fairer for America.
Cook has Trumps number. Just needs to call and provide some assurances.
Bonta needs to watch Bambi vs Godzilla.
You still haven’t answered my question. Trump’s demand that Apple open a US iPhone factory in weeks or face a targeted 25% tariff is impossible. If you’re Tim Cook, what’s your response to an impossible demand?
Pick a model and assemble here with robots and humans. iPhone SE/Air, or whatever. There are lots of unemployed folks who'd jump at the chance. something is better than nothing.
It took four years to build a semiconductor plant in Arizona, source the equipment, train the individuals, and import the necessary materials to start producing chips for years-old iPhones. Apple isn't going to begin manufacturing anything in 30 days, let alone an entire iPhone. Let's assume Apple uses a building that already exists, fills it with robots that are magically already built, calibrated, and ready to go, and gets this done within 30 days. Where are you going to get the humans to operate it within that time? It takes longer than that to train someone.
Regardless, it is imaginary nonsense. Literally impossible on every front to accomplish. Now, if Apple had 10 years and a few trillion to sink into the project, we could have an iPhone manufactured in the US -- about the time iPhone is no longer relevant and the market has moved on.
Little Bonta isn’t going to do anything. The president has the authority to impose tarriffs and exercise trade policy. Tarriffs ate a trade tool. And he’s using them to get things fairer for America.
Cook has Trumps number. Just needs to call and provide some assurances.
Bonta needs to watch Bambi vs Godzilla.
You still haven’t answered my question. Trump’s demand that Apple open a US iPhone factory in weeks or face a targeted 25% tariff is impossible. If you’re Tim Cook, what’s your response to an impossible demand?
Pick a model and assemble here with robots and humans. iPhone SE/Air, or whatever. There are lots of unemployed folks who'd jump at the chance. something is better than nothing.
So your answer is to lie. If you're Tim Cook, your response to Trump would be to lie and say you're going to build an iPhone here when you know that isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever. "Pick a model" doesn't solve the impossibility problem. There are no iPhone models that wouldn't require building a factory, developing supply chains, finding workers and training them. Also, it's worth noting that picking the lowest-priced model, "iPhone SE/Air, or whatever," would maximize the losses Apple would incur if they made the investment to build them here. So your recommendation isn't just to lie, but to really make it a whopper.
Of course, there's a certain poetry to responding to Trump with lies, since lies are the only language Trump speaks. Unfortunately, that particular lie isn't going to do much other than feed the unstable status quo. Cook already started out the year by trying to let Trump think that Apple's existing plans for US investments were Trump's idea. That worked for a while, but because things in the real world take time and money, Trump launched the current tariff threat because he realized iPhones aren't suddenly being made here. Letting Trump think he's won something with this tariff threat won't buy much time, either. Apple will announce the iPhone 17 line soon, and they won't be made in the US. When it suddenly dawns on Trump that his tariffs haven't changed that fact, he's just as likely to declare even bigger iPhone tariffs, Apple will be back to square one, and you'll be back on here telling us it's all part of Trump's plan.
Little Bonta isn’t going to do anything. The president has the authority to impose tarriffs and exercise trade policy. Tarriffs ate a trade tool. And he’s using them to get things fairer for America.
Cook has Trumps number. Just needs to call and provide some assurances.
Bonta needs to watch Bambi vs Godzilla.
It isn't "Bambi vs Godzilla" it's "Bambi Meets Godzilla".
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Regardless, it is imaginary nonsense. Literally impossible on every front to accomplish. Now, if Apple had 10 years and a few trillion to sink into the project, we could have an iPhone manufactured in the US -- about the time iPhone is no longer relevant and the market has moved on.
4D chess, everyone.
Of course, there's a certain poetry to responding to Trump with lies, since lies are the only language Trump speaks. Unfortunately, that particular lie isn't going to do much other than feed the unstable status quo. Cook already started out the year by trying to let Trump think that Apple's existing plans for US investments were Trump's idea. That worked for a while, but because things in the real world take time and money, Trump launched the current tariff threat because he realized iPhones aren't suddenly being made here. Letting Trump think he's won something with this tariff threat won't buy much time, either. Apple will announce the iPhone 17 line soon, and they won't be made in the US. When it suddenly dawns on Trump that his tariffs haven't changed that fact, he's just as likely to declare even bigger iPhone tariffs, Apple will be back to square one, and you'll be back on here telling us it's all part of Trump's plan.