ApplePoor

Dust off the library card and actually stimulate your mind with some reading and perhaps discourse with other human beings...

Because US corporations want slave wages for the people that actually build the product and millions for the top tier of management that is totally unjustified.

Remember, half this country started by using slaves to do the hard work. That mind set still exists.

They should have placed this plant near an ocean cost and built a desalt plant for ocean water.

The EU is attempting to set the rules so perhaps a "local" can enter the cell phone market and be the only piece of junk EU folks can buy.

Once again, non engineering types have absolutely no clue what it has taken to literally downsize a main frame of the 70s into a hand held device. 

EU claims a free market. The customers should be able to choose from a range of options. The EU says you get to choose only the Edsel model since all phones will be the same but can get different colors....

Apple can well afford paying their employees. They could cut Cook's wages to 5 million and pay the folks that actually do all of the work.