Quote:As Cameron knows, Apple is a byword of everyday sleekness. Yet there is another way of viewing the company. Focus instead on the way it does business, and all those iPhones, iPods and iPads aren't just exemplars of design and user-friendliness: they are devices that destroy western jobs. And they do so needlessly, because if the California-based giant manufactured its goods in America rather than China, it could still make profits that would be the envy of every other US business.

Quote:Using a mix of Apple's own filings and industry data, the academics broke down the cost of making one product in particular: the wildly popular 4G iPhone. Assembled in China, the total cost of putting together just one phone was $178.45. Compare that with a sale price (including downloads) of $630 and Apple makes $452 on each phone: a whacking gross margin of 72%.

Chinese labour accounts for a tiny proportion of the company's costs: $7.10 for each phone, which accounts for about eight hours of assembly. So what would it cost to make the same iPhone in America? The Cresc team took the average wage in the US electronics industry of $21 per hour and calculated that the total production cost would increase to $337.01. That is a big jump – but it still leaves Apple with a gross margin of 46.5% on each iPhone – a level that Cresc's Sukhdev Johal estimates would probably still make it the most profitable phone in the world.

So: two models of making one of Apple's most popular products, and two models for distributing the profits. The made-in-America model still leaves the California giant with a profit margin that most companies can only dream of, but would create hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US to boot. That may strike you as laughably naive, but it's more akin to enlightened self-interest: just think of the way Henry Ford raised wages so Ford workers could buy his cars.

Because they are too expensive verses slave labor of chinkville.
"be an obedient worker, and work for shit." not dissing the pop, but the controllers.

Do you understand what it takes for employers to pay hellcare premiums in this country????

At the end of the day, the math does not ADD UP!

Americans should stop buying their products. Of course, that would take sacrifice something that many..although they b*tch and moan, will never do.

Americans 1st  Wrote:

Americans should stop buying their products. Of course, that would take sacrifice something that many..although they b*tch and moan, will never do.

Nobody buys american stuff because it's crap. (Apart from your military hardware and Guns. Go figure....)

Richard Eldritch  Wrote:

Americans 1st  Wrote:

Americans should stop buying their products. Of course, that would take sacrifice something that many..although they b*tch and moan, will never do.

Nobody buys american stuff because it's crap. (Apart from your military hardware and Guns. Go figure....)

LOL, and WTF does Britain produce? Isn't like 75% of your economy financial services?

That's something to be proud of there.

You guys had 1 f*cking car company left, and now they are owned by India.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Americans 1st  Wrote:

Americans should stop buying their products. Of course, that would take sacrifice something that many..although they b*tch and moan, will never do.

Nobody buys american stuff because it's crap. (Apart from your military hardware and Guns. Go figure....)

Richard Eldritch  Wrote:

Americans 1st  Wrote:

Americans should stop buying their products. Of course, that would take sacrifice something that many..although they b*tch and moan, will never do.

Nobody buys american stuff because it's crap. (Apart from your military hardware and Guns. Go figure....)

But you have no problem with American goods and Americans themselves defending Israel. That need to change.

American's are fat and lazy

They do not want to work. Work is a bad word in America

Apple isn't stupid, they know this.

They know that millions of Americans would rather sit on their asses and collect unemployment or government funding.