25 Şubat 2012 Cumartesi

Apple, Cheap Labor and Turkey

Apple is currently one of the most profitable companies in the world. New York Times reported that last year it earned over 400K $ per employee more than oil, finance or software companies. Most of Apple's profit comes from cheap production and sell those products at a markup %200. It comes from cheap labor from China and also one reason for investment in China is exporting pollution says analysts . The main reason Apple left America because they don't want to deal with labor laws, pollution concerns and labor wages according to analysts.


Western countries at the center of productivity and innovation and most of eastern countries like China, India ; are attractive because of cheap labor, exporting pollution, tax concessions, etc... Turkey at innovative side or cheap production side ? When we look at the population and education politics, that population growth will make us next China, India? I don't agree with that. Production methods change quickly in accordance with market conditions and high competition. My opinion in near future cheap labor will leave its place to cheap robotics productions and green technologies. 


Here some examples ; 


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/cheap-robots-vs-cheap-labor.html?_r=1
http://www.cme-mec.ca/?lid=JCKNC-E742G-1W6JA&comaction=show&cid=4Y3YP-J994Q-39ZMY


Making plans to attract big investments with cheap labor in future will not work and China has already attempted this model.



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