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Certainly one thing the article failed to mention is the critical mass of suppliers in China that makes manufacturing much more efficient in China than in the USA. Not sure how the USA is going to address that, but I honk the first step is to bring at least some of the manufacturing back to the USA and lower energy cost certainly helps start that.


Factors other than labor cost were discussed a few years ago wrt the iPhone:

http://gizmodo.com/5878209/why-apple-doesnt-make-the-iphone-...




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