“Is building the same as manufacturing? How about assembling?” Tim Culpan writes for Bloomberg Gadfly. “These are esoteric questions, but they appear to be of great import to Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook.”
“‘It’s not true that iPhone isn’t built in the United States,’ he said in an interview with Recode and MSNBC this week,” Culpan writes. “Cook is rightfully frustrated with the perceived wisdom that the iPhone is a Chinese-made product, and Apple doesn’t get enough credit for all the work that’s done in the U.S.”
“Cook’s problem is that the word design (or engineer) isn’t as politically compelling as manufacturing, assembling or building,” Culpan writes. “Cook is right when he says the iPhone is a U.S. product. Not because it’s built in the U.S., but because its value is in American design and engineering and marketing.”
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“iPhone is a Chinese-made product, and Apple doesn’t get enough credit for all the work that’s done in the U.S.”
To clarify for Tim, made in the US means the finished product which was assembled and tested came from a US factory staffed with US workers. Those incomes stay in the community and country.
Tim is only showing just how Apple is just another self absorbed, self important company that believes it can say anything. There’s no Jobs coming to save Apple this time.
Your definition of “Made in America” is useless. If Apple pays $10 to assemble a phone in China (and they probably do), would you want that work here? Does bringing that work back here make any difference to the economy?
The value in an iPhone is simply not in the assembly of the physical product. It’s in the writing the code that makes it work (in the US) and the formulation of the materials that go into a touch display (mostly the US & Germany), and the engineering of the components (mostly the US), and the design of the integrated circuits (again, mostly in the US).
The value comes from the US, and stays in the US.
“Your definition of “Made in America” is useless. If Apple pays $10 to assemble a phone in China (and they probably do), would you want that work here? Does bringing that work back here make any difference to the economy?”
Many jobs today pay around $10 an hour including many part time jobs. Outside of poor rural states, I don’t know were a single person can support themselves for less than $15 an hour at 40 hours.
That’s why…
– Homeowner ship is the lowest since the 1960’s and becoming worse.
– Consumer credit card debt is at a near a record one trillion dollars.
– The US economy has been contracting for over 9 years. 2016 and 2017 were record years in retail store closures.
– 70% of people have little to no savings.
– Rents are taking way more than 30% of incomes many times taking 40% to 50% on home incomes.
– US auto sales in 2017 were the worse in many decades.
“– US auto sales in 2017 were the worse in many decades”
WHY do you have to lie?
The sales of autos in 2017 were greater than sales in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. That is certainly not decades.
“The value in an iPhone is simply not in the assembly of the physical product.”
Value for Apple who pays pennies then charges a fortune. That’s what has made Apple so wealthy with cash to burn. For the local economy and US economy, not so much.
That’s the whole point, Apple pays pennies… for the assembly of the physical product overseas.
More importantly, Apple pays huge amounts to the **American** engineers and developers that “make” the important parts of the iPhone (the design, software, chip design, materials science, etc.)
Apple creates the 1% with the exception of its retail workers.
One day someone might point out that a product is an global product that transcends national boundaries and clearly illustrates what can be done when humans work together.
Apple could pay a FAIR wage to U.S. citizens to manufacture iPhones and iPads and Macs and still make a decent gross profit margin. Not the GPM they make now with slave wages paid to Chinese workers, but a decent GPM.
Tim Cook, bring those manufacturing jobs home and treat American workers fairly!!!!
So is Friday or Sunday? MSNBC’s website says different days in different paragraphs (at this writing)
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/msnbc-voxs-recode-announce-town-hall-apples-tim-cook