Apple should be made in U.S.A

Personally speaking do you think Apple products should be manufactured in the U.S.A.?

No.

No.
Where Electronics are concerned, no one can currently match (let alone beat) the Chinese on build quality or price.

No, I don't think .Its good that they are from china.They have the best human minds and power.

made in china may not be a selling point for anything, but at least we don't make american cars

Yeah, marv. He's no "Ricky Clark". Look at his English. He's probably Xin Xuan Huan. (Or something like that) LOL.

Go to China if you don't like the U.S.! You would not last there a day.

Perhaps you should work in a Chinese SWEATSHOP for a few years to get in touch with reality. The ONLY reason products are produced in China vs. the U.S. is due to corporate financial GREED. $5 million per year isn't enough compensation for some CEOs, they need $10M and with their greed goes U.S. jobs and thus the standard of living is lowered in the U.S.

You're right China doesn't have to pay fair wages, provide medical coverage or pensions and that's why I think you should move there to work as these benefits are completely unnecessary, right? Let me guess, you have a $10/hr. job flipping burgers and you resent employees that get paid a fair wage and benefits because you don't have the same?

But you can have quality American produced products for a tiny but more than Chinese crap and that is why consumers should vote with their wallets.

U.S. CEOs get paid many times more than CEOs in comparable companies in other countries. It's pure financial greed. The way you fix the problem is by stop buying Chinese crap, place the same 500% import duty on Chinese crap as they place on U.S. goods and then reality will start to sink in at the executive level. No sales means no bonus and no job.

Well, if we have to buy things made in USA or other developed country instead of China, we need to pay so much more and our money will be out of our pocket so fast, we will be as poor as the people in developing country.

Yours is my "thought of the day". What a human, what a mind-blowing brilliance...

Actually China not only currently charges excessive tariffs on U.S. imports they won't allow U.S. car makers to build plants in China, they must buy into existing Chinese car makers.

Most products that the U.S. imports from China were once made in the U.S. or can be made in the U.S. with better quality and at a marginally higher cost.

Until consumers vote with their wallets they will continue to be exploited by big business.

Amen.

i can solve the problem, dont make apple products at all! the world would be a better place.

As long as people support bad fiscal policy the rich will get richer and the middle class will pay for it all. Buffet was right - tax ALL of the rich so that they pay their fair share and don't give tax breaks to industries that have monopolies like the oil companies who price gouge consumers.

I agree withyou 100%.You are right.

you are right another right winger blaming Liberals all the time.

In reality, Apple and many other American firms are cleaning up their act in China. You are misleading in saying that Apple is selling last generation hardware in their products. Most of Apple's consumer products have i5 or i7 CPUs, and if you want Xeon then you can go with Westmere.

Regarding labor, i would love to see a monkey put a computer together. In fact, your statement does not say much about the typical Tom's user. If an adult is working full time, regardless of the job, then he/she will need to make at least $15 and hour to pay for the bare essentials. Health, car, and house insurance is not cheap. Nor is food, rent, utilities, etc. The minimum wage is good for hs students living at home, but that is about it.

To be honest, having the factories in China or America doesn't signifigantly change the quality of the product.

The differences are just mainly social. You're employing unskilled workers to work at state-of-the-art facilities to produce your Apple gear. Apple's products are designed in California and Chinese workers simply make them. The argument that Chinese products are shoddy do apply to cheap household goods, it simply does not and cannot apply to high-tech manufacturing industry.

Companies like HP make only a small margin on the sale of a PC. Having one fail would mean that the company makes a loss. Having too many machines fail would seriously imapct the viability of building PCs in China. On the flip-side, if Chinese workers made shoddy Apple products which broke easily, Apple's brand lustre would be tarnished.

If China can't produce high-quality computers, nobody would put their production plants there. While 100000 consumers might not care if their $1 alarm clock from China breaks, if 100000 of their new $999 Macbook Air breaks from component malfunction, Apple is going to have a PR nightmare.

The differences are entirely social. If Apple was in America, it would create employment, increase production costs but be more environmentally and socially benefitial thanks to environment and labour laws in America being tighter than China.

My assumptions are based on the logic of your words. You said: "I do have a problem with people demanding $20+ dollars a hour for unskilled labour. If a monkey could do your job, then you shouldn't expect to make a lot more than minimum wage." The implication is that a monkey can perform unskilled labor jobs. Circuit board assembly is considered "unskilled labor," Read about it here. Other "unskilled labor jobs" are: truck drivers, fork lift operators, long shoreman, etc. How are people in these trades expected to support themselves or families based on your ideology?

The quality of Chinese products are crap. Pure crap. The only way you can insure high quality clothes from China is to ship USA made material over there. A Chinese made Fender will not stand up to an American made Fender. Chinese food is only a step above poison. The quality of Chinese goods sucks, but then there is the big question...why is it so much cheaper to produce goods in China? Maybe because the government fixes the value of it's currency.