Todd Weaver, founder of Purism, says his startup has successfully built and sold phones assembled in the US — challenging the widespread belief that domestic production is unaffordable and difficult to achieve, foreign media write, reports Telegraph.
Purism’s Liberty phone, assembled near San Diego with US-made electronics and a metal frame from China, costs $1,999.
Although far from the size of Apple, Weaver says his company has been profitable for the past two years and shows that manufacturing phones in the US is feasible with time and planning.
“It’s challenging,” Weaver admits, “but not impossible. We’re doing it.”
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