XregnaR wrote:

phreddy wrote:

Well, what do you know.  The Trump doctrine of America first is already working.  Apple is suddenly looking at assembling iPhones in the U.S.

They don't mention it in that article, but I seem to recall this being recalled before the primaries even got underway.

Robot's don't have nationality yet, as per the prior reports of massive Foxcon layoffs due to the shift to robot assembly off-shoring loses any advantage outside of lack of pollution laws.  Oddly enough China is moving to meet or exceed our environmental laws as we speak.

Stay classy, Trump supporters.

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

XregnaR wrote:

phreddy wrote:

Well, what do you know.  The Trump doctrine of America first is already working.  Apple is suddenly looking at assembling iPhones in the U.S.

They don't mention it in that article, but I seem to recall this being recalled before the primaries even got underway.

Um yeah, it seems the whole thing was implemented by  Obama first after all.

Yet there was precedent in the administration of incumbent President Barack Obama for political factors to overpower economic concerns when companies and governments haggle over corporate practices.

Faced with political pressure to bring jobs home under Obama's government, Apple helped its Singapore-based contractor Flextronics build a Mac Pro production line in Austin, Texas in 2013, after Foxconn set up an iMac assembly line in the same state the year before.

They will still make sure that everyone associates the price increase on an iPhone as Trump Imperialism.