Gee Apple could open a factory in the USA and employ our citizens. But an I-phone would cost $624.00 retail instead of $600.00. Can’t have that.....
Uh, no. . . try twice as much. The materials would have to be shipped here first and it is not just the assembly costs but manufacturing of many of the sub-assemblies and parts. . . not to mentioning the raw materials which are NOT, for the most part, mined anywhere near the United States.
Apple DOES have factories in the USA, Assembling iMacs and MacPros. . . of which better than 80% of the parts are made here.