"Used up all the manufacturing potential"? Do you honestly believe that? L-effin'-OL!
I do.
Did you know that Foxconn where they make the iPhone has as many as 450,000 employees in one location in China?
It's literally a city with it's own TV station, recreational facilities, fire brigade, grocery stores, banks, hospital; an entire infrastructure.
What's more typically employees work 12 hours a day 6 days a week. A quarter of the staff live in dormitories on site.
They get paid about $12,000 a year. Or about $3.20 an hour. Vastly more than minimum wage over there.
So where in America do you think you'd find 450,000 skilled workers willing to do that?
To double the wages to even come close to hitting America's minimum wage would cost Apple $103 million dollars a week. And American workers would probably need medical care, and we have the most expensive health care system in the world, so that's not going to be cheap either.
Bottom line is, I think many Americans don't get the shear scale of what goes into making products as popular as the iPhone, and if the Apple Watch were made in the US, shipping times would be many months away not a few weeks.
