And Republicans are more charitable to whom, exactly? Do donations to the George Bush library count? Does the Mormon $$ to recall California’s Proposition 8 count? How about the Charity scam Romney set up to avoid paying taxes (and without anything actually going to charity, as it turns out: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/romneys-charitable-trust-not-very-charitable)
What use is Bill Gates fortune really being put to, besides the cover stories proffered in the media?

http://philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Generosity-Divide/133775/

But what about the hordes of non-patriotic “Americans” who don’t care.

In some places in this country, including some schools, patriotism is considered one step from religious bias. Makes no sense to me, but educators and others sometimes have to justify their own patriotism and promoting it in their students.

You call yourselves patriots, but your Patriot Act restricts personal freedoms recognized in the Bill of Rights. You denigrate the President and trash our economy. Bunch of Hypocrites on the Red side.

Show me one Conservative with integrity, vigilance & introspection, who isn’t reaching in with both hands grabbing as much as he can, whenever he gains power. Someone who isn’t beholden to some billionaire, willing and able to speak his own mind. This person could start a conversation. You red guys just play immature ego games and shut discussion down.

Its a testament to the US worker that they can remain competitive, even though wages here are higher than elsewhere. Its called productivity. But that advantage is wiped out by a taxation system the punishes manufacturing.

The desktop is not Apple’s future, hasn’t been since 1995 when MSFT introduced Win95. What is Apple’s future is mobile, be it laptops or iOS devices.

Desktops represent less than 4% of Apple’s Revenue, but consumes Foxcon production capacity that is sorely needed for mobile products. Moving iMac (and possibly laptop) production out of China frees up that sorely needed production capacity at minimal cost (mostly increased income taxes: State of California and Federal). Between them those two taxing agencies will take ~45% of the profit made assembling in the US, vs 0% in China. Add another 20% to the cost of labor for Social Security, Medicare, Federal Unemployment, State Unemployment, State Disability and Workers Compensation expenses.

Taxation has always been the factor driving manufacturing out of the US, just like it has from western Europe (especially France).

But when I unpacked my new 20″ iMac (Assembled in China) back in 2008, I inspected every inch of it and declared it “perfect”! I still use it today. The only problem I’ve ever encountered is the scroll ball on the mouse.

In Apple’s case, Intel and Samsung already make CPUs in the US, while Corning (provider of Gorilla Glass) is also here.

My last and still working 24″ iMac and 13″ MacBook were Assembled in China and they gave me a pain in the ass from day one. They have been back in store several times.

That’s swedish and means: The apparatus shall be connected to an earthed power outlet.

Is it customary to have instruction in non english text in the US? I doubt so…

I think this could be a pre-assembly unit. Apple most likely do several per-assembly units to find the best method for production.

On the shipping though: Steve Jobs said part of the issue was most of the components are manufactured in Asia. Assembling there means supply chain is much shorter than if they’re all shipped to be assembled in the US, and any component fixes take days not weeks to get to the assembler.

until you have to pay for all the auditing to make sure they do it up to the standards you want. then you have to ship months in advance by sea or pay through the nose for air freight.