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Posts Tagged → manufacturing

Apple Dodges Another Bullet

posted in apple, iphone, manufacturing on April 14, 2025

Over the weekend, we learned that smartphones and computers are now exempt from the latest tariffs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed that smartphones, computer monitors, and various electronic components are among the exempted items. This means Apple has dodged another bullet —…

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Apple’s Increasingly Diversified Manufacturing

posted in manufacturing on December 20, 2022

A significant part of the formula that brought Apple from a near-bankrupt company to a trillion-dollar one was its relationship with Chinese manufacturing. Through China, Apple developed and sold the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. At the same time, few things could more effectively…

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