Why Apple doesn't make iPhones in the US

Taken from:

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/why-apple-doesnt-make-the-iphone-in-america/

and

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all

Two quotes:

"It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products."

and

"Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.

In China, it took 15 days."

The article would make it sound like the number of people, engineers and high tech facilities in China outpaces the US - so .. while Apple would love to sell the iPhone (and iPads and iPods and computers) to all Americans; they make them in China!!