How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
Keith Bradsher and Charles Duhigg are the ones that wrote the Article on February 2012. Charles and Keith gathered information through various responses during interviews between former contractors and employees who worked for Apple. Also, experts in manufacturing, technological analysts, economists, and trade specialist who are international sum up the list. Charles and Keith provide the company with the data, but they declined to respond.
Profile Apple:
Apple produces iPhones, iPads, and other products. About 30 million iPads, 70 million iPhones and 59 million undefined products that constitute iPod media players, televisions, computer accessories, and smartwatches have been produced.
Apple moved to the global supply chain in 2005. The reason was to increase revenue generated from the sale of the products. Executives claim that foreign workers reduce the cost of production as opposed to the American workers who do not opt to work for middle-class jobs. The overseas factories also have helped in reducing the cost of production and transportation costs. For instance, this has been eased through the building of glass companies near the assembly factories in Japan, Korea, China, and, Taiwan (Duhigg & Bradsher, 2012).
Product differentiation in functionality and design is Apple’s strategy for production. Other companies that use the same approach include; Samsung, Blackberry, Sony, HTC, Nokia and Google.
The rationale for product differentiation is for products from different competing companies to look different from Apples to look attractive to targeted consumers.

Apple relates it to innovation as new and improvised devices are developed. The change regards functionality and designs to make products unique (Duhigg & Bradsher, 2012).
Foreign contractors employ 700,000 Workers.
Apple employs 43,000 people in the US while 20,000 are employed in the overseas.
Apple’s profit per employee is $400,000
The value of the stock at the time of the Article was $108Billion with an increase of $45 to $427 and above in prices.
Salary package for top managers like Mr. Cook totals to $1.4 million.
Reference
Duhigg, Charles, and Keith Bradsher. How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work. 2012, http://cn.nytimes.com/article/business/2012/01/22/c00appleone/en/?pagemode=print. Accessed 13 Nov 2018.