mechoman444
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mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure FantasyEnglish1·20 days agoIf Apple were forced by law to manufacture iPhones exclusively in the U.S., they wouldn’t go under they’d adapt. They have the money (~$54B in liquidity), the brand loyalty, and the organizational muscle to pull it off.
There are ~7 million unemployed people in the U.S. plenty of potential labor, especially if Apple funds large-scale training and leans hard into automation. Would it be expensive? Absolutely. Costs would skyrocket. You’re probably looking at a $1,800–$2,000 iPhone. But guess what? People would still buy it.
They’d need 5–10 years to fully build out fabs, assembly plants, and domestic supply chains, but it’s feasible. TSMC is already building fabs in Arizona. Apple would just have to scale that approach to the rest of the production ecosystem.
Forced U.S. iPhone manufacturing wouldn’t kill Apple. It’d just make them the biggest American manufacturer since WWII.
The issue is like for every other major corporation in this country is that they’re just cheap bastards.
I work in the repair industry and what I tell all my clients when I do warranty work for them if it’s the difference between repairing their item or the CEO of the warranty company getting a new yacht it’s always going to be the yacht first.
mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure FantasyEnglish1·21 days agoNo. No it doesn’t.
There are 7.1 million people unemployed in the US officially. Realistically that number is probably much, much higher.
You’re saying apple can’t hire a few hundred people to work on an assembly line?
mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure FantasyEnglish2·22 days agoIf you offer good pay and good benefits at a decent working environment people will flock to assembly lines in the US. Christ they were basically invented here.
mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure FantasyEnglish11·23 days agoOf course it is. They want 1500 bucks for something with a few hundred dollars of overhead. R and d not withstanding they’ll want the same amount of profit for the phone if it’s made in America and profits have to increase year after year! They can’t make a little less profit they have to make more than before!
mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful ModelsEnglish0·2 months agoDon’t make assumptions.
I’m actually an appliance repairman.
Making dinosaurs from mosquitoes is not the same as implementing new technology.
You can say the same thing about the first ape that picked up the first rock and beat his enemy to death with it. Should he have picked up that rock?
Let’s not forget all those inventions made during war time for the purposes of killing that trickled down to various things we use everyday. Such as GPS, microwave ovens and duct tape.
Nobody asked us if we should we just did it.
Your statement about AI is closed minded and ignorant. You failed to see all the advancements that it’s made currently in computing, medicine, research, software development.
Humans have an inherent need to survive and cooperate it is built into our DNA. There is a reason why we haven’t killed each other with nukes yet.
Artificial intelligence will be the next step in human evolution it is absolutely inevitable.
mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful ModelsEnglish0·2 months agoNo you don’t otherwise you wouldn’t be saying any of this.
mechoman444@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful ModelsEnglish0·2 months agoWhy? Why should it be shut down?
Why didn’t we shut down Gutenberg or Turing?
Ai isn’t just the crap you type into chatgpt or Gemini going crazy with Google searches.
You know nothing about AI what it does and what it is.
O no half a billion dollars.
There’s no way one of the biggest and most profitable companies in human history won’t be able to financially recover from this horrific fine.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
O wait they made 95 BILLION in just the last quarter of 2024?
Nevermind.