Woohoo -- thanks for calling out my previous employer, which also built Macs for a good while (in Colorado). What a lot of folks don't seem to understand about

Woohoo -- thanks for calling out my previous employer, which also built Macs for a good while (in Colorado). What a lot of folks don't seem to understand about "third world factory economies" is that the prototyping and initial product runs are still frequently done in the west. Some EMS companies, like Flex, even have hardware incubators in Silicon Valley (google "Lab IX" sometime); all of them offer JDM & ODM services, too.