Apple's $100 billion investment has almost nothing to do with US iPhone manufacturing

Apple's latest announcement of a further $100 billion investment in US manufacturing is a positive, but it still has incredibly little to do with reshoring iPhone assembly.Tim Cook and Donald Trump, at the Mac Pro factoryThe expected announcement of Apple investing more in the US comes after extraordinary pressure from Trump to make the iPhone in the States. But it wasn't about making the iPhone in the US — because it cannot be.Returning iPhone production to the US would ultimately benefit the country, and it would start undoing the decades of all manufacturing leaving America. It's also very unlikely to happen in a decade, much less the handful of years that the Trump administration wants it to. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums