Much discussed article in NY TImes about why Apple products cannot be built in the US and how that kind of manufacturing is lost to the US for good is rebutted by Clyde Prestowitz over at Foreign Policy. My feeling is Clyde's take is closer to the truth - especially when he says Corning's decision to build the iPhone glass in China rather than America has less to do with supply chains as Corning claims and much more to do with China demanding that this is the way it's gonna be if you want access to the Chinese market.
I remember reading the article and thinking when an Apple executive was quoted as saying that the company was under no obligation to help with America's unemployment problem that that just didn't sound right - but I couldn't really put words to the feeling of exactly why that was - Clyde makes the argument for me.
