Here’s how much a ‘Made in the USA’ iPhone would cost

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during a "First Tool-In" ceremony at the TSMC facility under construction in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Caitlin O'Hara | Bloomberg | Getty Images When President Barack Obama asked late Apple CEO Steve Jobs about making an iPhone in the U.S., Jobs didn't mince words. "Those jobs aren't coming back," Jobs said at a dinner with Obama in 2011. The president of the U.S. and the CEO of Apple have changed, but the ambition of a "Made in the USA" iPhone remains. Defending its "reciprocal tariffs," the White House this week said that President Donald Trump believes the U.S. has the workforce and the resources to build iPhones in the U.S. Apple CEO Tim Cook nor anybody else at the tech company have come out to back that claim, but analysts who follow the company say the idea of an American-made iPhone is impossible at worst and highly expensive at best. As it's largely a theoretical exercise, there's a broad range of g ... Read full article.