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Even though I have less than no interest in Google eye ware it is nice to see some U.S. companies doing some manufacturing here. Especially the ones that make scads of money while playing fast and loose with tax issues.
You had to be a US resident to sign up for the Google Glass Explorer competition, and now it looks as though it could be quite a while before Google's sci-fi headgear is spotted outside US soil, because the headsets will reportedly be American-made, too. According to a report in the Financial Times, the Chocolate Factory is …
Odd, isn't it? Makes you wonder if the USA was ever competitive with the rest of the world, technologically speaking. I ask you, why does the USA seem to suffer from the inability to compete, globally, on equal footing, with other countries? Why can't we seem to completely manufacture a product, in house, that people actually want to buy, without a discount or bribe?
"I ask you, why does the USA seem to suffer from the inability to compete, globally, on equal footing, with other countries?"
Because the USA has a pesky little thing known as labor laws and a minimum wage. Scrap those and give the USA manufacturers access to a billion workers that will do 16 hours a day for a dollar a day from the age of 8 and then the states will be able to compete again.
China builds the phones. India answers them.
" because that kind of manufacturing was too complicated to be done Stateside."
Is the story saying that Muricans are stee-you-pid or something?!? Shirley a factory is a factory and can be built anywhere, and the assembly can be done by under-paid drones of whatever nationality.
To Lightnight - two issues, the first being minimum wage restrictions that aren't as expensive in other parts of the world, thus meaning either a reduced cost to us, the buyers (haha!), or lower overheads for the company (a lot more likely).
Secondly, the US and UK have the same issue. Many people now think that any form of manual labour is beneath them, and don't feel that they should drop their standards to take a job in McD's / cleaning / etc, but are happy to drop their standards just enough to pick up their benefit / welfare. This then leaves the job opportunites at the less enticing end of the scale to immigrants who are less picky and more keen to actually work for a living, but who then get lambasted for "coming over 'ere and stealing our jobs!"