You and CNN are both wrong.
If Apple could make a huge profit manufacturing in the USA, then why don’t they? Answer: they can’t make huge profits, or even any profit, doing that.
Also, why do you and CNN act like the only jobs that exist are ones involving screwing lug nuts onto cars?
You really believe that? The labor per phone is miniscule compared to the total retail price whether it is mad in USA or China or anywhere else.
I’m not going to criticize Apple for doing what every manufacturer of desktop, laptop and tablet computers, cell phones and the like does. I will give them credit for hiring more Americans from hourly on up the line than any other. Just one look at the huge server farm here in NC tells me that they’re far from offshoring every single thing. They don’t. Their top of the line desktop is entirely American-made. Who else can claim this?
If they’re going to build a car, more power to them, they’re brilliant engineers, industrial designers and have a unique knack for human interface that is really unsurpassed in the world today. I have my doubts that they’re actually building a car myself, though. Componentry for cars, sure. But the whole thing? Don’t know about that. It’ll be an awesome, game-changing thing if they do though. We’ll be looking at cars before Apple entered the fray, and after Apple just as was the case with every other thing they’ve ever done.
Apple is very disruptive and in a good way, we’ve all benefitted, even those who love to hate Apple. Their favorites are heavily Apple-inspired whether they’re willing to admit this or not.