Work on your reading comprehension... "not incompatible."

FTFY

you seriously have nothing better to do than make this awful attempt at trolling?

Uh, what?

The US is the biggest economy and will still be for a few years to come. The expectation for Chinese GDP to overtake the US is somewhere around 2018 or 2019.

Absolutely, shareholders are quite far from "standard-bearers" of morality.

Most shareholders would have no objection if the underlying company does all sorts of unethical behavior (dumping hazardous waste, engaging in slave labor, cutting worker benefits/pay) as long as it increases their profitability (and share price) while managing to avoid being in the press.

He's not a billionaire. Not even close; apparently he's worth something more in the lines of 4 mil, if that.

I'd figure that's small enough that no one would care in tossing him back over.

Wanting a few more options than a "vanilla" discount motherboard is hardly 'hyperoptimization'

From my varied experience of assembling machines, the motherboard has always been the most important choice around which everything else is based.

Yeah, please! It sounds like an informative read

What's your favorite pizza style/topping?

It doesn't say that the poverty line is much higher today than in 1960, so implying that people are worse off is nonsense.

It's somewhat indexed to inflation via CPI to the 1965 rate ($3,223), so practically it should be the same/similar level even if larger with inflation.

The survey questions bicycles, not unicycles

I have a tricycle from when I was a kid but you don't see me complaining.

God, I wish there was a sarcasm font.

Comic Sans?

The EPA has general listings for each utility.

You can do a lookup rather easily for your region.

Of course as private enterprise they're free to do as they desire, but that's deviating from the point; the argument was it wasn't feasible to do so because it wasn't/isn't profitable. Apple should simply freely admit what you stated rather than cling to false arguments.

TFA says moving production to the US would add 65$ to labor costs.

Not certain where they get those statistics, but even if they were that high, adding such a cost would still retain the iPhone's profitability.

Actually if you look at the statistics it looks like the cost of producing an iphone in China is dwarfed by all other costs -- so moving production elsewhere just be subtracting from an already lucrative profit and naught else.