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Trump believes iPhones can be made in the US, says White House
Steve Jobs and Tim Cook disagree.
With time continuing to tick down until President Trump’s higher tariffs take effect after midnight, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on the idea that products like iPhones could realistically shift to US manufacturing, claiming that “if Apple didn’t think the United States could do it they probably wouldn’t have put up that big chunk of change,” citing its recently announced $500 billion US investment plan. The only problems with this argument are that at least one analyst has described Apple’s planned investment as “in line with what one might expect the company to be spending anyway,” and that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have been saying iPhone manufacturing isn’t possible in the United States for over a decade now. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.
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