Man Finds Pictures of Factory Worker on New iPhone 3G

quoted by a Chinese newspaper as saying the young girl was "definitely not fired" from her position in the factory

Why doe this sound so ominous?

Because it doesn't exclude things being fired at her?

;)

You would think that when we develop new technology, that no one else has, we should make it here at home initially simply as a means of delaying the competitions time to market, not to mention producing USA jobs.

Aunk,

You are so right on with that statement. You'd think the people who proclaim America so productive would be on board with it, but they aren't. The executive level is all for itself and everything is "cost cutting" these days, with the executives reaping large bonuses for the "effort".

In my MBA program there was a seminar delivered by a marketing firm. The message they delivered was that design and product development should stay in the U.S. but all manufacturing can be done more cheaply elsewhere. This concept struck me as absurd for the very reasons you mention above. And one other thing, these folks travel the world and, like anthropologists, study various cultures for design ideas. Their goal is to design a product that people "love". Another guy in the class and I took issue with applying that word to a product and got slammed pretty hard.

Hetep and Respect Ire, we in America must translate this, jobs at home first, thinking into buying habits. I have never bought a foreign car. Marketing follows the money, the way to change bad practices in marketing is to change American buying habits.

The task falls to you as a new MBA. No, the task is not easy. How will you get us to buy American again?

P.S. "love" is a strong word, even for marketers. I love my mother and father. I do not love cheerios. At some point morals (knowledge of right and wrong) must emerge in PR and Marketing. This culture, the West, is relatively young, their is time.