Why didnt Apple begin to onshore manufacturing years ago, and instead pivot to India?

This genius named Ross Perot explained this in 1992

It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.

... when [Mexico's] jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals.[1]

Not to mention they also have the power of the US govt threatening Europe with tariffs if they continue to sue our tech companies.

It is a beautiful set up, thats how you end up with 200 billion offshore.

Last time Trump gave them a one time mulligan to bring the cash home, many companies took the opportunity to on shore cash....buy back stock to fatten their options....and did no investment. So much for the carrot, now its time for the stick.

And hogwash about the labor costs. WTF is the largest chip maker in the world building a mega factory in the US, and we cant make phones?

All these clowns with the Apple stickers on the back of their cars, a foreign company.

Mercedes and BMW are more american than Apple.