Therefore, the shift of production to the US would take years if not decades of coordinated investments in automation, tools, infrastructure and training. Encouraging foreign component manufacturers to build facilities in the US would also be a challenge.
“If you are a Chinese supplier making a certain type of component that can also be used on a Huawei or Xiaomi phone, you have lever,” Mohan says. “The encouragement to share these factories is low because you are getting staircase and efficiency in China you wouldn’t get if Apple were your only supplier.”
Politics uncertainty is another problem, according to Tsay. “The American system while staying, where everything can be fully roll every four years, it is not favorable for business investments. When people and companies make investments, they must have a longer horizon than that.”
Mark Randall was a senior Vice President in Motorola when he was owned by Google and sought to build her smartphone factory in the US. The idea was not impossible, he says, but “I just knew it would be too difficult.”
The costs of American labor required to turn raw materials into finished goods are “significantly higher” than elsewhere, he says. For example, the US has a shortage of mechanical engineers. For a massive displacement of electronics production in the US, “We are talking about needing tens of thousands of them.”
Tariffs create a “nightmare” when modeling the costs of a new plant, Randall adds. “That is why most companies do not make short -term, strange knee reactions to the type of changes we are seeing today. You have to be super strategic and know where you are going in the long run.”
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Wayne Lam, an analyst at Techinsights, says the process relies on an “army” of these cars, which Apple’s sellers in China have spent years accumulating and which can currently not be reproduced elsewhere. “If Apple were to make the iPhone in the sea, there would ben’t enough CNC cars that they could buy to meet China’s ecosystem scale,” He says.
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