Apple’s costs suggests that they are made in the US, but they are not. I guess that explains their great profits now.
If they make the move to US manufacture I’m sure they would find loads of support, support that would attone for their lost profits from cheap labor.
If I lived in China I would patronize the (allegedly) fake Apple stores. You can get a better deal these plus they sell ye ol pirated Windows7 DVDs for $2 that you can slap on your new Apple computer for dual boot. In those “fake” Apple stores they probably sell Apple laptops that are made on the real Chinese assembly lines but made during a ghost shift after normal factory hours. This is the only way the workers can survive given the slave wages Apple/FoxComm pays them
Hmmmm, you are misconstruing cost with price. If that is the case, how do you account for the costs/prices of Samsung, HTC, and Motorola tablets not being able to compete on price with the unsubsidized iPad unless they are subsidized by carriers? Strange... all of the are essentially made on the same assembly lines by the same workers. Yet Apple sells the iPads at prices WITH a profit margin of 41% while requiring that THEIR assembly line workers be paid three times more than others—while the other makers are losing money trying to meet Apple's iPad price points! Your argument does not hold water.
They make money because they make products that people want to buy and they don't mind paying for them.