And please don ' t complain about the price . You have seen Black Friday sales in the US , right ? People stampeding over each other to save a few bucks on electronics . It ' s all about the price for consumers , and the profit margin for investors . Paying people $ 20 hr on the assembly line in the US , vs . less than $ 2 hr in Asia , would result in a massive price increase . It ' s e s t i m a t e d i p h o n e m anufacturingcoststructure there ' s about 17 hours of labour involved in making an iPhone , so building them in the US would likely add about $ 300 to the purchase price . They simply couldn ' t compete without massive government subsidies or tariffs against their competitors . <| sep |> people have been buying video games worth $ 65 for ages . This isn ' t uncommon .