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Originally Posted by MaDalton
How much would an all-American iPhone cost? | Marketplace.org
You ready to pay $2000 for your iPhone?
While the competition keeps producing in China or Korea?
You think Apple would play along? Especially when they sell 2/3 outside the US where extra taxes on competitors products won't apply?
Wont happen.
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Consider what an iPhone now costs.
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How much would an iPhone cost if it were entirely made in the U.S.?
At the moment, the iPhone 5 costs between $650 - $850 retail.
iPhones are mostly manufactured and assembled in China, famously by the company Foxconn. And Apple pays around $5 per iPhone for labor.
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Now compare that to every other imported item between $650 - $850 retail. Tablets, TVs, Sat Navs, washing machines, clothing, Laptops, cameras, Xboxes, and everything else. Even kids Xmas stockings would be a lot smaller.
$50 instead of $16.
This is his biggest problem, getting Americans to understand his policies will cost them a lot of money. Even McDonald's will have to go up in price, if they can't hire cheap labour to serve them.
I remember what it used to be like manufacturing clothing. We were making clothes that retailed more expensively in 1975, than stores sell now in 2015. Everyone will have to make do with buying less and making it last longer. Or he just imposes taxes on imports. Which the consumer pays for at the till.