Since Donald Trump wants Apple iPhones to make us, focus on Steve Jobs' answer to Barack Obama: 'That job ...' | Company Business News

US President Donald Trump has doubled the countries by setting up extraordinary rates on it, in a bid that he believes will bring back manufacturing to America. With China with a massive 145 percent tariff, companies like Apple may be forced to move their manufacturing units to the US. The White House expects these rates to finally put businesses like Apple under pressure to make popular products, including iPhones in the US. Even after some iPhone manufacturing units have been moved from China to countries such as Vietnam and India, China still remains Apple’s largest base to make the smartphones and other devices. Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would impose a separate rates on the import of smartphones, which would increase the fear. His vision is clear, the US president wants companies like Apple iPhones to make in the US. But is it even possible? Steve Jobs’ warning to Barack Obama manufacturing from iPhones in the US may not be as easy as it sounds. An old report in the New York Times in 2012 explains exactly why. The NYT report, which received attention, reveals a candid conversation between Apple Founder Steve Jobs and the then President Barack Obama, where the late Tech Tech Techan explained to the leader why we can never produce iPhones again. In a private dinner held by Barack Obama in February 2011, months before the downfall of Steve Jobs in October that year, the president asked him: “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” “Why can’t the job come home?” Obama asked for work. The Apple founder had a blunt answer to Obama’s question. “That work doesn’t come back,” he said, according to Nyt who quoted a guest during the dinner. The report said that Apple drivers at the time were of the opinion that the number of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, zeal and industrial skills of foreign workers were better in contrast to their peers in America. Why can’t Apple make iPhones in us? According to a report from The Associated Press, the disictive for Apple that shifts its production closes, a complex supply chain that it began to build in China during the 1990s. It would take several years and cost billions of dollars to build new plants in the US, and then confront Apple with economic forces that could triple the price of an iPhone, threatening to torpedo the sales of its marquee. When Donald Trump announces rates on smartphones, Apple is expected to eventually increase prices on iPhones and other popular products, because the Silicon Valley supply chain is so strongly concentrated in China, India and other overseas markets trapped in the crossfire of the increasing trade war. Apple has committed to investing $ 500 billion and adding 20,000 jobs to the US during the next four years. The promise was an echo of an investment commitment of $ 350 billion in the US that made Apple’s first term when the iPhone from China tariffs were released. First published: 13 Apr 2025, 23:01 IST