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Originally Posted by Russic
There would be incredible benefits to doing it. Shipping times would be almost impossible to beat and it would create thousands of American jobs. I think it's almost 100% unlikely though because Apple's direct competitors (samsung, amazon, motorola) would continue producing their goods at slave wages. From the cold financial point of view, it makes almost zero sense for Apple.
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The labour to assemble Apple devices is a minuscule part of the supply chain, and also the highest paid. The slave wages, relatively speaking, aren't occuring in the assembly plants, its all the way down at the rare-earths miners, farmers, refiners, and chemical plant operators that really produce the semi-raw goods required to assemble iPads and whatnot.
Electronics assembly is the amongst the pinnacle of skilled manual labour, not the bottom of the barrel as so many are painting it. That's why there is so much demand from workers to get into those positions.