How about Indiana?

No slave labor in Indiana

They could but you would complain the products are too expensive.

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I don’t know what my response to a more expensive cellphone would be, so it’s curious you are so certain. What would your reaction be? How much more expensive? $1000? $600? $200? $40?

I find it funny, that a lot of people thought "Apple moving out of China" = "Apple moves production to USA"...

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That's the US...

look it’s the guy who couldn’t even wave a flag in f1 without looking like a fucking npc

No one thought this

I have a friend who works for a company, their support workers in the US make about $50,000 a year, they have recently starting outsourcing to india, because someone doing the same job over there, the company only have to pay $9000 a year.

Their profits are already insane high they could easily still make profits with the same price point but being built in a more developed and educated country. They could even lower the cost of their devices by a lot. Problem is they want the most profit they can get. And their customers have proven time and time again they don't care the cost of human lives or their paycheck they want apple. The modern day Blood Diamond.

"cough" Amazon distribution centers.

It said India, not USA (which is the 2nd largest CO2 polluter by country and 13th if you take per capita stats while India is 110th)

Edited because someone corrected me and I was wrong.

It's only slave labor to us, in reality they need those jobs, the alternative is no job.

What's your source? All of my sources talk about the usual 30% of margin.

Anywhere but the US apparently.

You mean like the $22 big Mac that failed to materialize?

Until this is made illegal or really expensive, it will continue.

What's YOUR source?!

To ignore the fact that Apple's entire business model post-Jobs has been to increase profits per unit every single quarter is either disingenous or utterly clueless.

https://fourweekmba.com/how-much-profit-does-apple-make-per-iphone/

>It costs Apple $501 to make an iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the company sells it at a base price of $1099. This makes Apple’s base markup on the latest iPhone model at 119%

Apple promised to do that a decade or so ago. Since Foxconn and others were going entirely robotic anyway (no longer needed little fingers to make iPhones), it made sense to save money on the last big hard cost -- intercontinental shipping.

But, so far that has not happened. I suspect because building these factories would eat into Apple's obscene profits...which modern Wall Street would not permit Tim to do.

Apples slave labor is a step above even amazon. Amazon pays a decent wage with benefits for a shit work environment. Apple prefers low pay and shit work environment

>>It costs Apple $501 to make an iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the company sells it at a base price of $1099. This makes Apple’s base markup on the latest iPhone model at 119%

Pretty dumb of you to account only for the BOM and not R&D, marketing, logistics and all that comes with a product.

https://irishtechnews.ie/the-secret-to-apples-iphone-margins-and-why-it-is-arguing-for-a-value-add-approach-to-trade/

Here's your source.

Ignoring the fact that nothing in your link contradicts the information I provided, your own link makes it clear that no matter how you choose to measure it, Apple makes 3-10x as much per unit (your 30% figure) as other electronic brands (single digit)...even after accounting for everything and anything involved.

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My own link clearly says 30%, just like every other serious breakdown.

It's more than average but it's not 150% like people who parrot an unfounded internet myth say.

I edited my post for clarity. You should re-read and do accordingly.

>it's not 150% like people who parrot an unfounded internet myth say.

That's a strawman because it's not something I said. Please stay on topic and address my post, not what you heard on the tubes somewhere, please.

Anywhere within the United States you can hire slave labor, it’s just inmates in correctional facilities. Chinese slaves are also inmates of the government, so it would make sense for them to come to the US if they want legal access to slaves.

So now the phone will come with scammer mail and voicemails out of the box.

NOT China, works for me!

I would prefer the USA, however, we all know that means paying 5x more.

The US isn’t the first per capita but it is higher than either India or China. It’s like 20th last I checked

Thanks for pointing it out. Edited my comment to mention the correct stat after googling.

Oh shut up with your stereotypes and racism.

Oh you shut up.

Not a single person said this

How about moving it to the US?

IPhone seven omaiga

Yeah I'm sure that'll go well...

I have been an integrated circuit design engineer for 25 years.

Mass electronic manufacturing isn't coming to America in any sort of real scale.

When you see something does come here, it just a political show.

You simply can't maximize profits on electronics manufacturing and build it in the US.

Why should it be illegal?

60k rupees a year is quite a good amount though? Like that middle class salary. Most middle level government employees start with that amount. Do worker it's insanely high amount as things are far cheaper here.

People don't know what slave labour is or they don't know what is cost of living is.