HA! Who in the U.S. is going to work for 75 cents an hour?
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The amount of labor per phone is peanuts compared to the retail price of an iphone whether made in the USA or by suicidal coolies.
Your point? Yes it may cost a little more to make them here, but so what? Apple does make huge sums of money but they will get a more stable environment and not be beholden to a communist regime who steals apple’s IP.
“HA! Who in the U.S. is going to work for 75 cents an hour?”
When you factor in the savings Apple would gain in shipping, employee travel expenses, prevention of intellectual property theft, shorter product development lifecycles, and avoiding US tariffs then employees working in the US can be paid more from those savings. That is why tariffs work.