US tariffs: how Trump’s tax is hitting Big Tech and beyond
See all Stories
W
Apple is supposedly waiting for ‘the robotic arms’ to build iPhones in the US.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he asked CEO Tim Cook about how to make US-built iPhones happen (despite Cook’s explanations for why they won’t), per an interview with CNBC:
LUTNICK: He said, “I need to have the robotic arms ... do it at a scale and at a precision that I can bring it here. And the day I see that available, it’s coming here, because I don’t like to employ all these people foreign.”
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same
- Nintendo Switch prices are going up after this weekend
- Google’s Pixel Tablet is $190 off for a limited time
- Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing
- Samsung TVs are coming back online after apps stopped working
