
There are 150 million smartphones in the USA. Until Moto X, not one of them was made here.When we set out to make Moto X, we asked ourselves, why?Conventional wisdom said it wasn’t possible. Experts said that costs are too high in the US; that the US has lost its manufacturing capability; and that the US labor force is too inflexible. And it’s true that most manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry moved offshore over a decade ago. One year ago, we chose to believe differently. We chose to be optimistic about the future of manufacturing in America. Not because making our flagship product...