Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTrump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the USprogramming.devimagemessage-square311fedilinkarrow-up1790arrow-down128file-text
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minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 day agoWe don’t even have silicon availability. I don’t mean chips or printed boards, I mean processed quarts crushed into powder. We would have to start opening strip mines and building massive furnaces and crushers and expanding railways. It’s just not feasible.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoBut we can just import some of the things we need as we build up the more valuable end of supply chains. I’m sure they’ve thought of that and there are no tariffs impeding those prerequisites, right? Right?
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·1 day ago and expanding railways Do it.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 day agoRest assured if they fix the rail system or will be to put us in cattle cars on a rather unfun one way trip.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoYeah fr we should, but we haven’t and we probably won’t so it’s silly to expect the manufacturing to pop up out of thin air.
We don’t even have silicon availability. I don’t mean chips or printed boards, I mean processed quarts crushed into powder.
We would have to start opening strip mines and building massive furnaces and crushers and expanding railways. It’s just not feasible.
But we can just import some of the things we need as we build up the more valuable end of supply chains. I’m sure they’ve thought of that and there are no tariffs impeding those prerequisites, right? Right?
Do it.
Rest assured if they fix the rail system or will be to put us in cattle cars on a rather unfun one way trip.
Yeah fr we should, but we haven’t and we probably won’t so it’s silly to expect the manufacturing to pop up out of thin air.