it does keep costs lower, but there's nowhere else in the world that has the capacity to create the igadgets at such volume. foxconn creates about 50% of the w

it does keep costs lower, but there's nowhere else in the world that has the capacity to create the igadgets at such volume. foxconn creates about 50% of the worlds electronics (source:mike daisy's "agony and ecstasy of steve jobs - should probably be double checked) either way, they don't have an options of another place to build the devices because of capacity reasons.