This is one of the most ignorant and moronic opinion pieces I've ever read on a mainstream news site. Apple employs almost 70,000 people in the US in well-paying jobs and hundreds of thousands more indirectly through its IOS family. The cheap labour in places like China assembles and makes the hardware because if the hardware was manufactured and assembled in the US the cost of an Iphone wouldn't be US$650 it would be US$2650, and very few people would be able to afford to buy them.