January 24, 2012
"Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufracturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States. In China, it took 15 days."

Why the United States Will Never, Ever Build the iPhone - Jordan Weissmann - Business - The Atlantic

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