There are a few systemic issues preventing this from happening, but otherwise it would be a great idea for apple.
1) The Chinese people are impoverished by the Chinese government and kept that way by the dollar peg.
2) People in China would kill to be paid what we call minimum wage here in the USA... that is, if they were allowed to have guns.
3) The main expense in a modern manufacturing operation is not manpower but rather the automation in the manufacturing facility itself.
4) Most of the know-how to build these factories and the companies that manufacture automation equipment are located in China.
5) Making iphones in the USA would probably cost 5x as much as making them in China, and at most Americans would pay 20% more to have a "Made in USA" stamped on the iphone.
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There are a few systemic issues preventing this from happening, but otherwise it would be a great idea for apple.
1) The Chinese people are impoverished by the Chinese government and kept that way by the dollar peg.
2) People in China would kill to be paid what we call minimum wage here in the USA... that is, if they were allowed to have guns.
3) The main expense in a modern manufacturing operation is not manpower but rather the automation in the manufacturing facility itself.
4) Most of the know-how to build these factories and the companies that manufacture automation equipment are located in China.
5) Making iphones in the USA would probably cost 5x as much as making them in China, and at most Americans would pay 20% more to have a "Made in USA" stamped on the iphone.