This would slash the incentives behind outsourcedlabor: By 2015, the labor-cost advantage between China and low-cost U.S. states will dwindle from 55% to 39%, and the savings gained from outscouring will drop to single digits for many products, according to the Harvard research.
And as much as Apple is heralded for its product design, its efforts to run an environmentally friendly business and create products that make the world a better place, there is almost no attention paid to the fact that Apple is one of the nation's biggest users of outsourcedlabor.