The only ‘Made in America’ smartphone maker has a message for Apple about manufacturing in the Trump tariff era.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/made-in-america-smartphone-manufacturing-purism-liberty-phone-apple-china-trump-tariffs/ (PDF)
Todd Weaver has an important message for Apple as it faces growing demands by President Donald Trump to reshore some of its smartphone production: Don’t listen to the conventional wisdom.
Experts have long said that manufacturing iPhones in the U.S., rather than Asia, as Apple does, would be logistically impossible and ridiculously expensive. But Weaver argues companies can indeed do it successfully, and at a similar or only slightly higher cost—if given several years to navigate the inevitable complications.
Weaver should know: His startup, Purism, is among the few, if not the only business, that assembles smartphones in the U.S. In fact, the U.S. pedigree is the main selling point of his company’s Made in America device, the Liberty Phone.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/made-in-america-smartphone-manufacturing-purism-liberty-phone-apple-china-trump-tariffs/ (PDF)
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