mechoman444

Not before 1990 but when I watched Terminator 2 as a kid I cried when they lowered the t-850 it into the molten slag.

Guys we’ve all been there right? That last picture is so relatable!

Heart shaped box in my ass.

I live in Atlanta so no. If I turn my blinker on that means they need to block me so I just shoehorn my way into every turn and lane change.

Ya! I know, I’m swimming in it right now!

If Apple were forced by law to manufacture iPhones exclusively in the U.S., they wouldn’t go under they’d adapt. They have the money (~$54B in liquidity), the brand loyalty, and the organizational muscle to pull it off.

There are ~7 million unemployed people in the U.S. plenty of potential labor, especially if Apple funds large-scale training and leans hard into automation. Would it be expensive? Absolutely. Costs would skyrocket. You’re probably looking at a $1,800–$2,000 iPhone. But guess what? People would still buy it.

They’d need 5–10 years to fully build out fabs, assembly plants, and domestic supply chains, but it’s feasible. TSMC is already building fabs in Arizona. Apple would just have to scale that approach to the rest of the production ecosystem.

Forced U.S. iPhone manufacturing wouldn’t kill Apple. It’d just make them the biggest American manufacturer since WWII.

The issue is like for every other major corporation in this country is that they’re just cheap bastards.

I work in the repair industry and what I tell all my clients when I do warranty work for them if it’s the difference between repairing their item or the CEO of the warranty company getting a new yacht it’s always going to be the yacht first.

No. No it doesn’t.

There are 7.1 million people unemployed in the US officially. Realistically that number is probably much, much higher.

You’re saying apple can’t hire a few hundred people to work on an assembly line?

If you offer good pay and good benefits at a decent working environment people will flock to assembly lines in the US. Christ they were basically invented here.

Of course it is. They want 1500 bucks for something with a few hundred dollars of overhead. R and d not withstanding they’ll want the same amount of profit for the phone if it’s made in America and profits have to increase year after year! They can’t make a little less profit they have to make more than before!

Steven Seagal.

Mhmm. Yes.

Hold on. Let me play some mp3s I got off Napster on my winamp while I browse the world wide Web on my Netscape.

When are we going to learn that this doesn’t work.

Elon will make back that billion back in a short enough time that it won’t matter!

Start taking percentages of their income! Company needs to pay 30% of their revenue for ten years.

That’ll put the fear god in them!

I’m 39 ☹️ zero points.

Everyone knows all rocks are flat this is just NASA propaganda.

Like?

GRAMMA WOULD HAVE WANTED THIS!!!

Money can’t solve all your problems but it can solve most of them.

I use proton vpn but you’ll get downvoted no matter what if you don’t use the vpn the bandwagon likes.

This kind is behaviour is a major downfall on platforms like this.

Toop