Originally Posted by
dr_max
then if you have a smartphone option all made in america or Canada that are paying their workers descently, let me know because the iPhone 6 Plus I bought to a friend is starting to glitch. They don’t last more than 6 years it seems
None of that stuff is made here. Real estate costs "too much" for the facilities....and labor actually has an expectation of being treated like human beings. It is also a very low-margin business. "Too much" of course in the context of pennies-on-the-dollar overseas in buildings/plants that already exist. Apple themselves contract out to FoxConn. Apple's talk of "in-house" silicon based on ARM for everything...well it is "in house" in that they design it and have FoxConn or TSMC make it overseas.
There's talk of TSMC building a chip foundry stateside...but that is all talk.