Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Robo Rock.

Leading off today, Apple is back in the White House's crosshairs again over its relationship and dependence on China.

In an interview on CNBC this week, White House Senior Council for Trade and Manufacturing,

Peter Navarro, reignited criticism of Apple and Tim Cook for what he described as years of

delayed efforts to move iPhone production elsewhere.

Navarro said, quote, going back to the first Trump term, Tim Cook has continually asked for

more time in order to move his factories out of China.

It's the longest running soap opera in Silicon Valley.

And my problem with Tim Cook is that he never takes the steps to actually do it.

And with all of these new advanced manufacturing techniques and the way things are moving with AI,

it's inconceivable to me that Tim Cook could not produce his iPhones elsewhere around the world and in this country.

Instead of moving iPhone production to the United States, Apple has focused on building factories

and expanding its manufacturing capacity in India, a move that has also drawn anger from Trump.

Trump has said he firmly believes that Apple has the resources to make iPhones in the United

States and that the U.S. has the resources to get that done.

Apple, meanwhile, has never committed to or even suggested that it plans to move iPhone

manufacturing to the U.S.

In the past, Cook has said that the U.S. doesn't have the kind of vocational skills

that workers in China have and that are required to make the iPhone.

Apple, however, has committed to spending

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