Experts have criticized the claims of the White House press secretary. According to the expert, the price of the iPhone could even triple if Apple moved manufacturing to the United States.
Donald Trump believes that Apple could make its phone in the United States. EPA / AOP, Erno Vähämäki
US president Donald Trump believes that Apple phones can be produced in the United States in the future. The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reported this at a press conference on Tuesday.
Leavitt’s statement has been reported, among other things CNBC and CNN.
Leavitt said at a news conference that Trump hopes that Apple’s telephone production will be transferred to the United States.
“We have the necessary workforce, employees and resources,” says Leavitt.
However, experts do not agree with Leavitt. For example, the Needham analyst interviewed by CNBC Laura Martin emphasizes that Apple’s phones would increase significantly with US production.
– We estimate that prices may triple. Starting production would also take years. For example, in India, it took several years to get a 14 percent stake in Apple’s production, Martin said in an interview with CNBC.
Global Director of Wedbush Securities Technology Survey Dan Ives In turn, in an interview with CNN, he estimates that the iPhone produced in the United States can cost up to $ 3,500, or just under $ 3,200 in the current course.
– Apple’s production chain is the most complex in the world. The price of a thousand dollars in iPhone is due to these decades of production chains, Ives tells CNN.