I disagree because at some point in the supply chain you have to draw the line. What about the company that made the processors? What about the memory? what about the one that mined the materials?
Major Customers of Foxconn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers
Don't most car companies directly hire employees that assemble the final product (car)?
Long story short, while they do the final assembly more directly, 90% of the work is still done in China, figuratively speaking.
And my point is Apple has hardly any employee that actually assembles the end product (in this case iphone, ipad, macbook etc), other than a few in US that build custome Mac Pro in US.
So before one gets giddy about how profit per Apple employee is so high, he/she should remember there are literally hundreds of thousands of people assembling the final product but they are not counted as employees of Apple.
You can call this practice any one of these: 1. It's smart business and that's what capitalism is all about. 2. It's immoral and unpatriotic.
From what I know, no other non-China and non-US phone companies outsource 99% of assembling. Maybe I'm wrong.