How much would it cost to make an iphone in america?

~$50 instead of the $10 that it costs to make in China.

And since China is listed as a developing nation and not a developed nation internationally, Foreign countries (mainly the US) pays for pretty much all of their shipping.

So if you factored in the actual cost of building and shipping an iPhone. it becomes cheaper to build here.

SEXOOOOOOO

Fat, and only amerimutts think she isn't, but still would

Reminded me of this from 10 years ago-
digitaltrends.com/mobile/mit-building-iphone-us/
liberal estimate- an extra $4 - $10
mid estimate- extra $30 - $40
conservative estimate if EVERYTHING got moved to strictly the US- extra $100

milkies

It cost 100 dollars in China, so probably 300/400 in usa

Kek

Almost zero. They have to maintain the machines on the assembly lines every couple of days and set up the tooling changes between production runs. Rest of its all automated all the way down to the packaging which they would print inhouse

Just make them in Mexico.

if American citizens were willing to work on an assembly line for minimum wage they'd still cost 5x as much as they do now. The answer is to give Apple special dispensation to pay by piecework and hire greencard holding spics and welfare recipients but even then it wouldn't amount to a living wage

It's not that fucking high. The could literally still be profitable without changing the price but take a huge hit in profit.
Companies like apple operate at volumes where a 0.1% profit margin gain is worth murdering people over because it equates to $100s of millions of dollars.
Even thou pic related numbers look small it adds up to billions very quickly.

Pleasantly plump

The real question is what is the net margin apple is making on these? If apple goes from 90% net margin to 87.5% net margin in onshoring their products why should I care? Both are exorbitantly Jewish margins as it stands

One BBC

cars cost a 100 dollars, in china, import the same car and you’ll pay 20000 at the border

care to explain this magical value?

don’t worry it’s a rhetorical question, we should just nuke you off the planet and make robot factories

While the final assembly and sale of the IPhone is done by American companies, much of the expertise and market share in the production of the various electronic components is held by Asian companies, and tariffs will not suddenly make them available for production in the U.S.
The world is not as simple as Trump and his MAGAtards believe.

a wheelbarrow of these

Read the article, it's about a specific kind of tooling labor that is extremely rare in the states. It's quotes from Tim Cook himself.

More like free tiddy

have you ever tried to tax a billionaire 3%?
imagine thinking big corps are gonna stand for that

they will literally murder a whistleblower of a 1% dip on stock

Interesting question. There's a few variables here to consider, one of those variables is supply chain naturalisation (time). Assembling a phone locally requires having the components: you don't have to have the component manufacturing on-hand. Supply chains also take time to mature (doubtful the Forbes writers considered that) which would massively bring down costs. That's the economy of scale.

What you need to do is look at labour fraction for manufacture, which won't necessarily be representative in a US context (higher labour costs = greater drive to reduce labour use). Don't consider establishment costs (e.g., fabs, processing, engineering) and your equation changes substantially. Factoring in other costs; land, utilities, regulatory compliance, transportation etc - requires complex calculations.

I'd say a good proxy is Intel. Sure, they're only manufacturing chips, but they manufacture older process dies in the US. They are matured in terms of supply chains. Sure they don't have the same assembly-level costs for phones (which is a big part of existing labour fraction)

Apple are notorious for the opacity of their product manufacture costs. They outsource almost everything. Many of their contracts are legacy, meaning contractors operate on increasingly thinning margins. Reality is this: we can't answer any of the existing cost questions.

What would be a better question is "could you produce an Iphone domestically in the US with a wholly localised supply chain that would be profitable and sell at the same price point?"

The answer to that is most definitely...

digitaltrends.com/mobile/mit-building-iphone-us/

"Yes"

By "make" do you mean just final assembly or do you mean mining all of the raw materials and manufacture of base components 100% in the United States?

They don't get a choice in the matter. They can try to raise the price and recoup the loss but that's just gonna hurt sales volume.

All the rest of us have had to tighten our belt and operate under tighter margins for the past few years; fuck em

Infinity because Americans forgot how to make things.

But who needs a new phone these days? It's a sick obsession, snobbery and fetish, Stupid waste of money.

Only as much as people are willing to pay.

Tell you what, I don't give a flying fuck. You know why? Because if apple can't make an affordable product here, someone else will. And how much do you want to be that that mother fucker won't be nearly as locked down as a fucking Iphone is?

This tariff thing is not only going to bring back the age of american excellence (once we get rid of all the niggers, spics, chinks and pajeets), but it will kickstart the waifubot revolution by finally putting the tools of industry back into american hands.

screencap this post, see if I'm wrong in 10 years.

I switched back to a "dumb phone" a few years ago. Imagine paying $1000 for a spy to live in your pocket

Pretty sure there's a term for this: "supply chain sovereignty"
If addressing mining: does the US have the requisite REEs and extraction/processing technologies to manufacture mobile devices at scale? Let me find out...

Maybe $100

iphone cost like 20 cents. its all profit.

state of it

90%

it's closer to several hundred percent.

the world is a finite place. there is no other market on the planet that can absorb product that america isn't buying. no one can afford not to do business in the us. that's the problem with 'theory' not taking reality into account. the reality is without the american market all of these companies go out of business. they will eat shit and like it. especially tech companies with triple digit profit margins.

Please fucking name

it just depends on the level of spying you're interested in. the modems in all cellphones have backdoors by law. you can't escape the feds.

We have the machines here from maintaining a good manufacturing base

200 dollars

We don't have the machines here because we outsourced them

Not possible, no dollar amount.

This is the actual answer, providing X good is about maintaining the infrastructure to provide it mostly. We'd need to build the factories, it's gonna take a few years to build each one. The time estimate is however long it takes to get the permitting required to build the factory, design the new phone (it will not be using the same components probably), then to actually build the factory and the phones.

If you don't outsource it's trivial, even smartphones are really simple shit-tier technology compared to the good stuff that gaymers have in their PC's, but if you don't have the factory to make 10 million Iphones you can't make them and you can't sell them and there's no dollar amount that you can sell one for.
Basically the cost is in time, not in actual dollars. It's gonna take time to make the factories and establish supply lines. The actual cost of an Iphone made in the USA will be probably 5-10% more than elsewhere, mostly due to us having stricter regulations, the building process taking longer because of it, and because the jew layers will take a pound of flesh from you if you try to build a factory.

The cost isn't even in money, it's in jew lawyer bribes and time.

Estimated production cost 850 dollars

That's entirely bullshit, it would be like 100 dollars more than in china. I don't care what any kike pilpul about this says basically, the only reason it WOULDN'T be that cheap is if they couldn't get the permits to build the factory.

specific kind of tooling labor that is extremely rare in the states

They always say this sort of bullshit to distract from the real reason for them offshoring which is cheap labor and zero labor and environmental regulations.
If a country or company wants to do something bad enough they can do it. The reason they do or don't is 100% based on the profit margin.

Nope. bunch of faggots arguing about gay shit and calling this perfect specimen "fat"

Even the machine tools needed for such a process are not made in their country.
It is mainly us, China and Germany, who make them.
In their country there are only code monkeys, hamburger flippers and Jews
It is impossible to change that rapidly.

Delusional

Yttrium (Y), lanthanum (Y), praseodymium (Y - hard to confirm), europium (?), gadolinium (Y), terbium, dysprosium, cerium, neodymium.

Stopped half way. One thing Trump should fucking fund is the USGS to do a proper fucking survey. Also fund extraction and processing technologies. Big $ there. Honestly the USGS seems to be more concerned with earthquakes than mineral reserves. Pathetic.

Does not include gold. Does not account for substitutions (see graphic).

skill issue

We outsourced our labor to save 10 bucks an hour and now we don't have the labor required because everyone got different jobs

NO SHIT KIKE, YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!

Disgusting jewish flappers

6 million dollars

Why do people need a constant steam of new phones?

I still use the OG iPhone SE 1. All you cunts have to do is take that, give it a new battery that lasts for 48 hours, upgrade the basics, and you're good to go.

It is impossible to change that rapidly.

That's why one of the caveats was "time". Time also requires supply chain certainty. That requires political certainty to an extent. If everything was reshored and functioned as an insulated autarky (within a specific sector) and had some form of state support... 10-20 years?

Then again during wartime countries seem to manufacture equipment out of thin air and wishful thinking so who fucking knows?

This.

cars cost a 100 dollars, in china, import the same car and you’ll pay 20000 at the border

State-run manufacturing facilities that were built before a market for cars existed that produce 100 million models and then hand them out for nearly free at a loss.

Basically the same way those electric scooters flooded streets even though they never made money, chinks just scale it up for cars.

Autocorrect noticed my typo on chinks

Thanks, corrected, that would have been embarrassing.

I bought myself a oneplus 11 3 years ago
mfw it outperforms the goyPhone16max ultra plus that work gave me in 2025 in every single way and cost half as much

Their "official" number on the Iphone is a 50% profit margin. That's already ludicrously high and something you see almost nowhere else, they sell themselves as a luxury product and just ride off their name so their profit margins aren't even in question, they will almost always make profit in any economic condition.

Now add in the app store and other services that also make them money and it's pretty much an unlimited money printer.

iphone can't even record in 8k
in 2025
5 year old android phones can
lmfao

not using a flip phone

Ngmi

If I had the knowhow and money, I'd set up phone manufacturing down here. 2 phones, 1 small and 1 large, simple as fuck, none of this gimmick bullshit, etc. Would be a $300 phone or less.

but it will kickstart the waifubot revolution by finally putting the tools of industry back into american hands

This is true in a lot of ways, you're thinking of the future.
ANY future tech that develops - AI, robotics, cars, fusion tech, superconductors - All of this is built off existing industries. If we ever actually crack any of this and there's a "breakaway" tech that is suddenly worth 10 trillion overnight we get exactly zero dollars of that into our country if we can't manufacture the technology.
Basically when it comes time to automate all jobs out of existence if we haven't made a manufacturing base by then whoever has and has the superior base will develop theirs as fast as possible and sell it at a 20,000% markup to the rest of the world, then WE will be the slaves making I-phones and t-shirts and everything else.

At this point it's a fight against american slavery, if we don't get back our manufacturing and tech dominance any meaningful breakthrough means we lose and we work 50 hour workweeks for below-minimum wage while Zhang fucks his loli robot wife and his "work" is spending 10 minutes writing a review on how good the robo-loli blowjob was.

Let’s find out.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0s1VxMAsvJ0&pp=0gcJCX4JAYcqIYzv

they cost hardly anything to make it is mainly markup, brand and marketing

apple earns so much for the appstore that they could give them away for free probably

In america we call that look the "angler fish"

Who knows. But we know when they built Macs in the U.S. it cost the consumer half of what they pay now.

how do you resist the temptation to spark a lighter at it

What if Apple built a massive ship manufacturing plant and assembled them in international waters with cheap foreign labor?

Underrated post

Its mouth has a 48% chance of containing a rare slow-acting poison nicknamed "herpes", it's best not to get near one. That's why they have to have the little hair bulbs to attract unsuspecting males by the bobbing motion.

About the same if the oligarchs use prison labor here like Apple does everywhere else .

even with the higher estimated costing it still shows that Apple could 100% onshore and still be profitable. If the then invested in automation and robots which you'd think would be right up their alley they'd be able to work back towards that higher profit margin, maybe even become more profitable than they were with outsourcing.

Don't care.

I remember a long time ago reading a book about British industry after WW2 and a military officer asking why you would deindustrialize completely, rather than mothball stuff, since you always need it in the future and the cost of rebuilding and the strategic danger was so high, compared to a minimal amount of preservation.

MAYBE $150 - $200 more at most. Americans can afford that. Especially if they are making the phones to begin with. Dollar is going to SOAR in value. The inflation demon is excorcised. Reciprocal tarrifs on auto pilot should be the new normal. How dare these pigs demand to keep these huge trade surpluses even after the greatest President that's ever sat in the Oval Office even gave them pretty sizable discounts on these equalizing tarrifs. The fuckers get to keep 50% of these surpluses and then complain like bitches. This is what happens when you run socialist shithole governments. Best start deporting your shit stains now before they wreck you!

This article is so ass. I clicked into hoping to get some actually cool accounting break down like: "heres the cost of these same parts produced in America" but no it's literally just "well Apple wouldn't be able to produce as MUCH which means supply and demand so idk... $30,000-$100,000 I guess?"

He literally just pulls a massive number out of his ass with absolutely 0 math or research done. The absolute state of modern journalism

Not much. It's mostly assembled by machines.

You don't have the fabs for that and they are expensive as fuck you retard.