Elizabeth Powers writing in The Weekly Standard, Sept. 27, 2010 (as published in the WSJ, September 27, 2010)
The processor of my husband's iPad . . . is designed by Apple in Cupertino, California, and manufactured by South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Co. Another South Korea-based company, LG Display and Japan's Seiko Epson Corp. make the LCD display while Taiwan-based Wintek Corp. makes the glass overlay necessary to detect touches of users' fingertips. . . . For the amazing integration of production and markets to work and bring an iPad to your local retailer, all a country needs are the legal protection of property rights (including intellectual property or shares in a corporation), the outlawing of monopoly protection, a good internal transportation and communication system, secure labor, supplies, and customers. Not to put too fine a point on it, is it any wonder that there is probably not a single component of any high tech product owned by readers of this review that was made in South America or (excluding Israel) the Middle East?
In "The world is flat", Thomas Friedman describes the assembly of a laptop with parts from all over the world.
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