Okay. All you supply chain experts convinced me. I suppose it is also helpful that once they are built, they are already here.
I have built consumer electronics for 20 years (including cell phones). You can build them in the U.S. within 6 months of the decision to do so and at very high volume within two years. The only requirement would be to find the floor space near a major airport. The cost differential would be about +10-15%. They should set up the facility in the Southeast (good labor climate). The amount of “consumer goodwill” would be immensely helpful to them. From what I understand they pretend to care about that stuff.
Contrary to what most of the press would say, China already has very large incentives to build in China...like if you don’t build in country, you cannot build. The will screw you big time.
I figure if I can do it (and I have done it on more than one occasion) that all the Apple “Geniuses” could figure it out.