I’ve been searching for an article I read a few months ago that gave the reasons why the iPhone would never be manufactured in the US. The bulk of the thinking was that since nearly everyone who has a mutual fund is in some way an Apple shareholder, they would never allow Apples costs to rise to the point where they weren’t pulling in tens of billions in profits each I quarter. Therefore, they would have to maintain their ever cheaper manufacturing off shore.
At the time, that article really resonated with me. Wall Street would continue to call the shots, and things would go on as they have. Now I’m starting to see that there’s no way Apple can continue the way they build things. And it’s not just Apple, of course.