Lessons from India and Google's U.S. Smartphone Initiatives for Trump's Apple Manufacturing Push

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Google's brief attempt to manufacture smartphones in the U.S. with Motorola in 2013 offers valuable lessons for current efforts by Trump to push Apple and others to produce in America, highlighting challenges like higher costs, limited supply chains, and market preferences, which ultimately led to the project's failure and the sale of Motorola.
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- As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google's brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons Fortune
- Trump Wants America to Make iPhones. Here’s How India Is Doing It. The New York Times
- India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons The Economist
- The Cost of Making India’s Apple Dream a Reality Bloomberg.com
- Google's U.S. Smartphone Manufacturing Effort Ends After One Year AInvest
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