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Originally Posted by Azure
The iPhone is cheaper in labor hours because Foxconn and China have made an agreement to treat their workers like slaves who work, sleep and basically just LIVE to make the iPhone. The factory is setup in such a way that a worker at the iPhone plant has no other life than doing just that.
Obviously that won't happen in North America. And apparently we are okay with that because we love giving Apple billions upon billions in profit every year to keep the labor cost of the iPhone down.
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A little off topic, but it's not like Apple couldn't afford to pay workers more. They choose to roll it into obscene levels of profits instead. If they were,e for instance, shut out of low labour cost countries and had to build them in NA, the cost of the phone could only go up as much as the market would bare, the rest would have to come out of Apples profits.