Trump to Tim Cook: I don't want you building iPhones in India.
Trump to Tim Cook: I don't want you building iPhones in India
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| Listen, about that Tim Apple guy. I've got a little problem with him. Credit: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images |
Apple is building most of its devices in China. The company has been doing so for decades due to cheaper labor costs, supply chain infrastructure, and manufacturing expertise that's unmatched in any other country in the world. When the Trump administration recently imposed massive tariffs on China, Apple's reaction was to shift some of the production to India — a process that was already underway when the tariffs happened.
But Donald Trump is having none of that. Speaking to the media on Thursday, the U.S. president expressed his dissatisfaction with Apple's decision to move iPhone production to India.
"I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday. I said to him, 'You're my friend, I've treated you very good. You’re coming here with $500 billion, but now I hear you’re building all over India. I don’t want you building in India,'" Trump said.
SEE ALSO:Apple might increase iPhone prices this fall
Read it in Trump's voice for added effect: "I said to Tim, I said, 'Tim look, we've treated you really good, we put up with all the plants that you built in China for years, now you got build us. We’re not interested in you building in India, India can take care of themselves (...) we want you to build here,'" Trump said.
With an offer like that, how can Cook refuse? Well, he'll probably have to, given that it's impractical, extremely expensive, and currently near-impossible to build the iPhone in the U.S. at the volumes that Apple requires.
Trump did say that Apple will be upping its production in the U.S., but offered no details.
Apple has previously said it would invest $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years, which includes a new factory in Houston, Texas, where it will manufacture servers.
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What little that Donnie knows about how business works in the US would fill a book of how not to make money. Tim "Apple" has no interest in running IPhone production the way that Donnie runs a casino.
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Well then Tim should just tell ole Donnie to EAD.
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ReplyDeleteHe cannot do anything about it
ReplyDeleteIt’s not his company…
agreed. But watch him try to f*ck it up for everyone.
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ReplyDeleteHe wants Elon Musk to make IPhones.
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DeleteThe person who doesn’t pay workers has a problem.
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ReplyDeleteBusiness are Business
“And i don’t care about what you want.”
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ReplyDeletegeopolitics… just a warning to india to not go for russian jets
DeleteSo who is going to afford expensive US labour ? Apple is already feeling pressure due to operational cost of services and tariffs.
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ReplyDeleteReuters
Deleteactually there isn't any. We apparently outsourced most of our printing too.
Deletedid you buy them
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Deleteagreed 👍
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ReplyDeleteRepublicans d##%ing around with the economy again. 5 year old who thinks he's king can't just snap his fingers to change the world. It takes years of planning and STABLE economic policy to change businesses. No business can plan around this chaos.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what you call government interference in free market economy
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ReplyDeleteIn one day trump tower sold in Noida India billions of profit to mr trump and don't want apple to make phones ,can he tell Americans can he make cheap Apple phones in usa today🙂🙂
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It’s Time for Us to contact All our Governors too act, it’s time for us to pressure our House and Senate Representatives to Remove Trump from Office NOW. ~ Trump a is a Clear and Present Danger to America. There is NO way the framers of the Constitution would not act to remove Trump from office. It’s time to contact Trump's Cabinet members to Impeach this Idiot and remove him from Office and stop the Chaos! ~~~
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Who gave tours of the back stairwells?
Why were 'Tourist, taking pictures of those back stairwells?
None of it answered and none of it no longer matters. Only the pardoning power outlined in Art: II matters at this point.
trump has an abuse of power thing going on, if we were to look at other Countries that would put a person like trump in command, we as America would be pointing fingers and blaming their voters. We are that Country now and we are allowing trump to TREAD all over us.
ReplyDelete..sounds a little like communism to me, Donnie, when the state is telling industry what to build and where to build it. Are you a closet commie, Donnie?
ReplyDeleteIf Mark bothered to read past the headline, he'd see that Trump was asking Tim Cook to not build in India, considering Cook has said he would invest $500 billion in the USA.
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ReplyDeleteJust proves Dementia Donnie has no hold on reality.
ReplyDeleteAhh ....................... a billion and a half people feel otherwise they need phones too.
ReplyDeleteApple factory in America will just be putting the label onto the iPHONE.
ReplyDeleteDementia Don thinks he's the king of the world.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't he mean Tim Apple?
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