Froman: "We can make iPhones in this country, completely in this country, but they’ll probably cost $3,000 and they won’t be available to the single mother who uses it to FaceTime with her kids ... People rely on trade in ways that they have no realization of.”https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1038453273286664193 …
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I have been in many, I have built many thousands of PC's, Hundreds of workstations, and many exceptionally large systems. They could put the factory in many areas of the country where labor rates are no higher than in Shenzhen, electricity is cheaper, and state incentives better
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Factory workers in China make $2,000-8,000/yr working 60 hour days with no benefits. Please tell me where you would locate a factory at those rates in the US.
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Do you have actual data on that or just 10 year old news stories...Or alternately, you support that kind of labor relations? I would pay more for my phone not to buy it from slave labor.
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I was in China two months ago. You? And that’s not slave labor, don’t be ridiculous.
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I would bet quite a lot on a per phone basis the labor cost is about 20 cents in China if not less, which taking the multiple here would add about $10 bucks to the cost of the phone. (http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2018/08/15/labor-cost-comparison-of-chinas-first-tier-cities.html …)
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How are you doing that math? They would save that cost in air freight around the holidays, would make no sense to continue shipping overseas if that were true
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One of the biggest advantages in China is not labor, but the government underwriting of the capital cost of manufacturing infrastructure.
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You might want to watch Steve Job's description of how they did manufacturing at NeXT, in the United States.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk-9Fd2mEnI …
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