Trump lashes out at Apple over plan to ship US iPhones from India

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Donald Trump has hit Apple’s plans to produce more iPhone devices in India as a way to avoid American definitions on Chinese Chinese goods, as he continues to push the technology group to manufacture its best -selling devices in America.

Speaking in Qatar in the last match in his tour in the Middle East, the US president said he was “suffering from a small problem with Tim Cook yesterday” after Apple CEO confirmed last week that Indian factories would provide the “iPhone” sold in the United States in the coming months.

The Financial Times previously reported that Apple planned the source from India, all of the iPhone devices, which exceed 60 million pictures that are sold annually in the United States by the end of next year.

Trump criticized this idea on Thursday, saying that he told Cook: “We are really good, we have dealt with all the plants that I built in China for years. We are not interested in building you in India.”

He claimed that Apple will “increase its production in the United States” after the conversation. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump’s comments are the latest sign of cooling in the president’s relationship with Apple, one of the most companies in America.

Speaking at an event in his head this week after announcing a deal of billions of dollars to sell hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA processors to a new Saudi artificial intelligence project, Trump praised Jensen Huang’s chief of the stage: “Tim Cook is not here but you are.”

In February, Apple pledged $ 500 billion in the United States during Trump’s four years in his post, including the production of chips and servers for Amnesty International.

But the company faces tremendous challenges in repeating its wide facilities in the Chinese supply and supply chain in the United States, which depends on the workforce in the field of skilled technology manufacturing that is now concentrated by an overwhelming majority in Asia.

Analysts estimate that it will cost tens of billions of dollars and take years to increase Apple to increase iPhone manufacturing in the United States, where you are currently doing a very limited number of products.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lootnik said last month that Cook told him that the United States would need “automatic arms” to repeat the “scale and accuracy” of the manufacture of iPhone in China.

“It will build it here,” Lootnick told CNBC. “The Americans will be the technicians who lead these factories. They will not be the ones who spoil them.”

Lootnick added that his previous comments stated that “the army of millions and millions of people who are fixed in small screws to make iPhone devices – this type of things will come to America.”

He added: “The Americans will work in factories just like this in great great -wage jobs.”