Seref

It's less a "wooo 'murica" thing and more a "shipping costs from asia are starting to get ridiculous" thing. I doubt the companies are seriously looking at this as a patriotic move, it's always bottom-dollar oriented.

Would it really inflate prices in Europe, or would they stay mostly the same?

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LRCGUITAR

When Apple announced (in the USA) that the new Macs are going to be made in the USA the crowd all applauded, and somehow I don't think that was because they're happy that Apple are cutting down on shipping costs. It's a selling point through and through, because due to companies like Fender whose American-made products genuinely are the best, people have some kind of idea that if it's made in America it's better.

It will certainly inflate prices in Europe. First of all it's a similar distance to the USA as it is to Asia, so there's no reduction in shipping costs (which is the benefit that Americans get, leading to a similar price when it all evens out), but we still have to pay increased labour costs.

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OddOneOut

it's as easy as flashing a ROM (ie. boot into custom recovery like twrp or cm, install zip, clear dalvik cache, reboot phone) to make the most of it use an app like set CPU or the rom's inbuilt performance feature to set the scheduler or Max/min CPU speed. xda forums are the best place to find kernels. personally I user faux123's kernel on my nexus 4. a lot of people use Franco kernel but word is that he uses other peoples code in the kernel without credit, so on principle I don't like it.
if you find you are getting a lot of random reboots then it's not a good kernel and you should flash the stock kernel. Also flash the stock kernel in between changing kernels. always make sure you have a nandroid back up at least until you're sure everything is working OK.

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Seref

I wasn't suggesting that consumers would see it as a cost cutting measure, only that the only reason it's happening is because companies have realized it could actually be cheaper to produce them in the country where they sell the most, despite the increased labor costs.

I hope other countries don't get overly burned on this, but it's relatively minor when you think about it. Who besides Apple and Motorola are based in the US? Samsung will continue to produce in Korea, Sony in Japan, HTC in Korea, Huawei in China, etc etc.

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