{"id":28166,"date":"2012-01-23T01:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=28166"},"modified":"2012-01-23T01:37:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:37:28","slug":"obama-jobs-e-i-problemi-di-delocalizzazione-di-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/obama-jobs-e-i-problemi-di-delocalizzazione-di-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Jobs e i problemi di delocalizzazione di Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Via NYT<\/a><\/p>\n

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley\u2019s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jobs\u2019s reply was unambiguous. \u201cThose jobs aren\u2019t coming back,\u201d he said, according to another dinner guest.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn\u2019t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple\u2019s 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 \u201cMade in the U.S.A.\u201d is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.<\/p>\n

Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and most imitated companies on earth, in part through an unrelenting mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.<\/p>\n

However, what has vexed Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple \u2014 and many of its high-technology peers \u2014 are not nearly as avid in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays.<\/p>\n

Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. Many more people work for Apple\u2019s contractors: an additional 700,000 people engineer, build and assemble iPads, iPhones and Apple\u2019s other products. But almost none of them work in the United States. Instead, they work for foreign companies in Asia, Europe and elsewhere, at factories that almost all electronics designers rely upon to build their wares.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple\u2019s an example of why it\u2019s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,\u201d said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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