I suppose until they can build all iPhones & iPads there, there could be a large discrepancy in sale prices for imported devices if they kept profit margins the same. Easier to keep the price the same (& make a few extra dollars??).

The iPhone 4S was definitely snappier. These Brazilian iPhones will be definitely spicier?

The beginning of worldwide manufacturing of the iPhone...Apple insuring its stake in the future. I'm not surprised:-)

It's good to have competing nations with Chinese labor force. Stupid proview thought it had the right to ask the government to stop the exports!!!

That place looks like a high-security supermax Prison facility, in that photo. So that is where they are building the iPhones? I wouldn't wanna work there.

"Foxconn: Where dark totalitarian 1984 really is a reality."

Brazil is ok as a place to diversify. However, the cost of doing business there is much higher than China. I suspect that at the current exchange the rate, the manufacturing costs there are comparable if not higher than say Texas or the Carolinas. There is a shortage of engineers in Brazil and even skilled labor in some categories, plus hi real estate taxes, corrupt bureaucracy.

I think that with all the problems in China and elsewhere, Apple need to consider the US... even if Foxcon or Pegatron were to set up plants here, rather than Apple. Right to work states like Texas would probably give the land for dirt cheap prices, all kinds of tax holidays, cheap energy, etc. Any manufacturing would need a hi level of automation. Same thing with CPU manufacture... how about Intel, IBM, etc instead of Samsung?

China is developing so rapidly, that the workers have many other vocational choices. Chinese wages are also rising rapidly. Demand for Apple products in China is staggering. As a result Foxconn needs to have extra capacity elsewhere.