New York Times Report "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work"

I am working on reporting on the "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" article from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?emc=eta1 . I am writing one page at a time. Here is my first page. My thoughts are in green. My humor, I believe, is becoming almost as good as Stephen Colbert's! Enjoy!

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
By CHARLES DUHIGG and KEITH BRADSHER

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries a person who is an inspiration to others for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.

But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?

Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.

Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous having or exhibiting no ambiguity or uncertainty . “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.

The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable capable of working successfully option for most Apple products.

This means that Apple no longer makes their products in America. That is because Foreign workers are better at making things than American workers. Foreign factories make things faster than American factories. American people can no longer work on Apple products due to the better working skills of foreign workers.

Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and most imitated companies on earth, in part through an unrelenting refusing to yield or relent; inflexible mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.

Many companies are trying to be as great as Apple, like Google and Amtrak. But, Amtrak is trying to be great in a different way. Amtrak is trying to provide a reliable service. Apple refuses to stop being successful. Last year, each person who worked for Apple earned $400,000 for Apple.

However, what has vexed annoyed, frustrated, or worried Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple — and many of its high-technology peers — are not nearly as avid keen; enthusiastic in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays.

A little Jon Stewart\Stephen Colbert humor comes to mind here. Apple: Who cares if people are losing their jobs and losing their homes as well and can't feed their children and have to live on the streets in a cardboard box with nothing to do and eventually they'll get a disease and die? The important thing is, we earn 400,000 dollars and the employees get only 1 little dollar! We care more about the foreign countries that are working for us like slaves more than the Americans who are losing their jobs!

Meanwhile in the Whitehouse...

Obama:*facepalm*

However, what has worried President Barack Obama as well as economists and policy makers and people who actually care about the fate of America is that Apple is not as enthusiastic about giving the citizens of America jobs. I mean, the founder of Apple's last name WAS Steve JOBS, wasn't it? Shouldn't he have been giving American people jobs?


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