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by racl101 2005 days ago
> One of the reasons Jobs cited as being an important factor for locating in China is the availability of skilled labor. It would have taken them years to hire enough industrial engineers to handle the scope and scale and volume that the iPhone required in the US, if they could even manage it at all, but only weeks to do so in China.

So, potentially, if the phones were made in the US they'd be like Ferraris? Very expensive and only a few made at a time?