Quote: (07-19-2010 07:56 AM)Whoremonger Wrote:
Nintendo is Japanese
The cell phones come from Europe or Asia
The coveted IPhone 4 is "assembled" in China, however it is not MADE in China. 80% of what the iphone offers, is in its software and firmware designed by American engineers in Cupertino - that is really what you pay for.
The iphone 4 has a supply chain of about a dozen vendors form Germany, Taiwan and Asia - but the $$$ is in its firmware. Indeed, when you buy an iphone - it is shipped from China, but its mainly because that is the cheap assembly plant where a Chinese workers earns 16USD per 12 hour day to put together all teh pieces of your Iphone 4. The money you pay for goes to Cupertino in the US - which has me question the real trade deficit.
More infor here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/techno...l?_r=1&hpw
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