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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

  • Verne Kopytoff--Yahoo Entertainment
  • published date: 2025-07-05 18:10:27 UTC

Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.

The executives were well aware of the difficulties they would face in manufacturing a smartphone in the U.S. As with any great tech industry moonshot, the challenge was part of the appealand they emb… [+18745 chars]