2017-0129 [The Mercury News]: Can Trump bring factory jobs to the Bay Area?
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Professor Tsay was quoted in a article about whether the new president can bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. The article also appeared in numerous other outlets.
From the article:
“The question everyone seems to be asking is: will the iPhones come back?” said Andy Tsay, a business professor at Santa Clara University who specializes in global manufacturing. “My answer is: there’s not a good economic reason for it.”
Trump has pressured Apple CEO Tim Cook to make iPhones here, but the smartphone manufacturing industry already is entrenched in China. Everything from the companies that make smartphone components to the technicians who repair the factory machines is there, Tsay said, and moving that massive ecosystem to the U.S. would be a costly and time-consuming endeavor.
Read the article: https://goo.gl/QBcS7i
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