President-elect Trump considers potential Apple manufacturing in US a ‘real achievement’

AppleInsider:

“Tim, you know one of the things that will be a real achievement for me is when I get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States,” recounted Trump to the New York Times. about the recent call with the Apple CEO. “Instead of going to China, and going to Vietnam, and going to the places that you go to, you’re making your product right here.”

“I think we’ll create the incentives for you, and I think you’re going to do it,” added Trump. “We’re going for a very large tax cut for corporations, which you’ll be happy about.”

I’m pretty sure Tim Cook doesn’t care about helping Trump in the way he describes. But very few people believe it would ever be possible, incentives or not, to build iPhones stateside. There are too many moving parts in Apple’s supply chain.