Wednesday 28 December 2016

Apple's iPhone suppliers in China won't move production to the U.S.

During the presidential campaign of 2016, Donald Trump called out the U.S. tech industry for making its products using cheap overseas labor. This annoyed Trump for two reasons; not only were U.S. assembly line workers not benefiting from the explosion in mobile device sales, U.S. consumers were actually paying for the salaries of foreign workers when they purchased a new iPhone, or Galaxy S7 for instance.

Apple saw the handwriting on the wall last summer, and spoke with Foxconn and Pegatron about assembling the iPhone in the states. While Foxconn reportedly ...

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