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   d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 05:20:52 JST d

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   @Terry no
   
   it's reasonable to say at this moment in time we can't make iphones here. that doesn't mean we can't build the industry required to make iphones here
   
   by the time we could make iphones entirely in country they would not be $30,000+. maybe $2000 tops
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     Terry (terry@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 05:20:53 JST Terry
     Chat, is this real?
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 05:21:07 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @deprecated_ii @Terry iirc the 30k figure came from some bullshitter, but people beleive it
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 05:26:27 JST d

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     @mischievoustomato @Terry it's from here
     
     https://www.quora.com/How-much-would-an-iPhone-cost-if-Apple-were-forced-to-make-it-in-America/answer/Glenn-Luk
     
     this finance nigger doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground
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     JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 05:33:30 JST JoshuaSlocum

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     @Terry well, to make an iphone, you have to have gorilla glass, so you have to buy at least a million gorillas
     and of course a gorilla masher, or two if you want multi-threading
     and there's a chip in there, i've been to the grocery store, Doritos are like $6.99 a bag, but there are a bunch of chips in the bag, so that's a relative bargain
     batteries require a lot of rare earth minerals, so you have to dig where the earth is rare, and that means (for the US) in Hawaii, which is expensive because they believe in volcano gods and will kill you
     so i think $100K per iphone is probably on the low end tbh
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     dilbert 1 (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 06:25:27 JST dilbert 1

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     @ThatWouldBeTelling @JoshuaSlocum @Terry I toured an RV factory once where a American (white, even) was building and installing all the electronics in 2008
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     That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 06:25:28 JST That Would Be Telling

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     @JoshuaSlocum @Terry :cirnoDoubt:

     As recently as the 1980s Red state flyover country was manufacturing sophisticated, consumer electronics using surface mount parts, including RF stuff. It would take a while to regain that, in some cases for passive components I assume we might have to make the tools to make the tools, but it could certainly be done if our ruling trash wasn't intent on destroying the sorts of people who once did this.

     Note the period; that's just based on my personal observations, but we're credibly told deliberate deindustrialization really started in earnest the next decade. For seed corn, the (((NSF))) started its campaign to replace American STEM workers with cheaper Third World ones in the mid to latter part of the 1980s.

     Even then, the US makes a disproportionate amount of Wafer Fab Equipment for semiconductors to this date, including for example the lasers that power the Netherlands' ASML's all but magic EUV lithography machines. (You know you're in trouble when the process starts with "emit 50K or more tiny molten tin droplets every second...").

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:14:01 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @JoshuaSlocum @Terry it's worse, you can't even mash the gorillas with the new gorilla glass, you have to distill them, and only the silverbacks.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 07:15:59 JST lainy

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     @Terry retarded propaganda lies again, thanks forbes