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Apple's $100 billion investment has almost nothing to do with US iPhone manufacturing
Apple's latest announcement of a further $100 billion investment in US manufacturing is a positive, but it still has incredibly little to do with reshoring iPhone assembly.
If it did, if education were actually properly funded in the US, it's been estimated that it would cost Apple $30 billion and take three years for it to move the smallest parts of its iPhone operation back to the States. But for all that Trump has been criticizing Cook over making iPhones in India, Apple's current CEO is more publicly backing US ventures than his famous predecessor. As long as Trump does little more to assist other than sitting next to big-tech CEOs at the White House, he can continue to push the very easy political point that he's trying to so hard, and can beat the drum that it's Apple who is refusing to do what it should.
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