Apple's Steve Jobs to Obama: Jobs aren't coming back to U.S.

[thekfc]

When President Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.

But as Steve Jobs of Apple spoke, Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
 
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.

Why can't that work come home? Obama asked.

Jobs' reply was unambiguous. "Those jobs aren't coming back," he said, according to another dinner guest.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=3&hpw

[Jeff S]

Just shows you how naive our politicians really are.

[piglett]

how crazy would you have to be to build a factory in the US?
the only other place more hostile towards business would be europe
 
pig

[no comment]

Apple Computer got some bad press in the NY Times recently over working conditions for some of their assembly plants.  Consumers demanding better conditions for workers as well as Chinese demanding better conditions will make a difference. 
Another article with another point of view: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/02/why-made-in-china-is-starting-to-get-too-expensive/

[EnglishYEspanol]

Apple is going to begin making macbooks in the US this year. So I'm not sure why he said that last year.