I see the Ars comment section is full of the usual insightful "we need Chinese slave labor otherwise the flow of my shiny new Apple devices will be shut off". It's really a product of selfishness.<p>Imagine if in the 1960s the US simply said regarding the space program, "Welp, let the Russians do it, can't be done". And they DID give up, until SpaceX came along the US was relying on the Russians to ferry astronauts on Soyuz.<p>People forget that 30 years ago China was still shipping low quality crap. It is because of companies like Apple that worked with Foxconn to bring that up to standard.<p>The defeatist attitude will not bring about progress. It will not happen overnight but it can be done.