> i want an iphone made in america by nasa scientists or something. i'd imagine r&d of current iphone is done mostly by american talent in the usa, it's only manufacturing that happens in the third world. it's just a huge capital investment to build a state of the art automated factory to assemble that sort of thing here. i guarantee if you gave apple a blank check they could get a factory built in oklahoma or some shit that could churn out phones at the same cost to get them to market as current manufacturing.  apple spends around 10 billion a year in advertising so let's not pretend the big expense of an iphone is the difference in paying chang 3$ an hour vs paying chudanon 30$ an hour is the deal breaker in the cost of a phone where the actual human labor required per phone is probably extremely low.  the bigger savings in manufacturing in the third world is just being able to build a factory out of rice stuffed phony cement blocks and completely ignore any sort of building codes, safety, or first world standards.
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