Aryana

Palm Pre: Inventory Watch

The engineers that designed both the Pre and iPhone are mainly American, however because of comparitive advantage it is wise to manufacture the product where ever it is cheaper. The profits go into American companies and pay for high paying US engineers. This is what Aryamehr was probably infering. No company of substantial magnitude can be wholly localized. What counts is its ownership and those that hold the intelligence, ie Patents, R&D and Engineers/designers not the low paying workers that put the product together in an essembly line.