An iPhone "Made in the USA" would be expensive and complex to produce

If you take an iPhone and look at the back, you will see a text that says "Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China", which means that it is Apple who designs everything but outsources the labor to manufacture and assemble all the components. Many Americans, especially some politicians right now, would like Apple to manufacture their devices in the US, which is why MIT has decided to investigate and calculate the cost of producing a device. iPhone "Made in USA".

El MIT study pick up Two possible scenarios: the first is that the iPhone was assembled in the United States, that is, that all the pieces were assembled and assembled; the second is that all the components of the iPhone were also produced in the United States, that is, nothing to let Samsung or TMSC manufacture the processors or other manufacturers take care of the screens, cameras ...

Assembling the iPhone in the US would add a cost of $ 30-40

According to various analyzes, the cost of making an iPhone is between $ 156 and $ 230, depending on the model. According to MIT, if the devices were made in the United States, the manufacturing cost would increase from $ 30 to $ 40. The reasons are twofold: that labor is more expensive in the United States and that components (such as processors) would have to be shipped to the North American country. The final price of the iPhone 6s Plus could be 5% more expensive, so the 16GB model would have a price of € 902. You might think that this price increase could be affordable in the United States, since it would create many jobs, but most likely, if Apple had to manufacture its own devices, it would they will use robots like Liam, so the thing is not clear at all.

Assuming Apple designed, manufactured and assembled all of its components, MIT can only give an estimate. The problem is that the iPhone uses many elements of the so-called Rare Earth Elements, some elements that are mainly in China and that cannot be extracted from the United States. If this were possible, MIT says another $ 100 would be added to the price of a device. In short, adding 5% of the manufacturing cost and another $ 100 to the device already manufactured, which in Europe would be € 100 more, we can think that an iPhone 6s Plus manufactured in the United States it could have a price of € 1002. Well, give me 3, hey ...