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lostincalifornia

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1. It can be done, but only through AI and automation eventually. Labor costs would likely be too costly, and

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:13 PM

Jul 6

necessitate a price increase in the phone which might not work out for it's sales.

No doubt Apple is weighing the cost of labor verses the cost of supposed tariffs, and the only way they would consider moving assembly back to the U.S. is if the tariffs outnumbered the cost of labor.

Regardless, the days of manual labor will be reduced as much as possible to replace it with automation or robotics. That writing seems to be on the wall.

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