Not exactly acurate, I am aware of where all pieces of my computer were made, none were in third world countries, in fact third world countries and electronics don't typically work out very well. Your iPhone was manufactured in China few would call it third world, but living conditions are worse then some third world.
Anywho nothing is too expensive, the price of items is dependent on supply and demand not expenses. If costs go up there contribution margin may shrink but the demand won't change, if they increase prices to make up lost profits they lose demand price elastacity remains the same. Its a falacy that electronics are too expensive too make out of the third world, when you consider that apple is has one of the largest profits in the world. Anyways, apple is different they contract to Foxxcon which treats even worse then your most reputable of slave labor such as Nike. Fact check yourself sir, I'm not dumb you choose not t
Think about the materials needed to make the components for your pc. Rare earth metals, Gold, Silver, Copper,nickel all of these come from poor nations that are resource rich where the population is exploited to reduce cost to obtain these materials. They use slave labour basically. A lot of countries 2nd and 3rd world have serious labour issues and a lot of those come from companies once again reducing cost to have there product made. Thailand, Philipines, Malaysia,
You said I was overcharged... Which means you think its too expensive. However your saying nothing is to expensive because it based on the supply and demand of the market. A lot of electronic products come from underdeveloped countries. I'm an electrician. I see electronic products everyday manufactured in these nations. I have worked overseas and many products we used would come off the production line straight to out job site. And these are rather high tech instruments that meas
Alright I definately enjoyed that post, and I also will resend any negative personal attacks. Not sure how severe they were but I'm sorry.
I just hate apple, well I hate any company that uses the excuse of cheap labor or poor working conditions to bring prices down. It's a fake excuse a justification to do evil. And I hate that everyone thinks apple is great without any concept of what is happening. I'm not against people buying the phone they want, I own a phone. But there is a big difference on how Carlos Slim does business in Mexico and Argentina then how apple does it China. For one the phone manufacturing plants in Mexico are heavily isolated because third world countries have a hard time for the most part with electronics, securing supply lines, factory breakins and securing export routes.
So why i feel it neccessary to moan and gripe is that sure intervention should happen in the base country it won't matter.
@drew: some of those 3rd world nations seem to have no problem with supply routes and sales routes when it comes to cocaine and heroin.
@rdd11: I'm mostly with you on 3rd world labor policies, and one could make the case that by NOT buying 3rd world, we're witholding from them what little they would get. If you follow the analogy to the extreme
also, PM me on how I, too, can get one of those phones for 0 $. I am interested.