When President Obama gathered Silicon Valley's top players for a private dinner in February of 2011, he asked Apple founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs what it would take for Apple to make iPhones here in the United States. Jobs replied: "Those jobs aren't coming back." Looks like he spoke too soon.
Speaking with Bloomberg Businessweek, current Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said the company has been working on a way to bring some of its Mac manufacturing back to the U.S in 2013.
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There's no word on which companies Apple will partner with on the manufacturing. Rumors have Foxconn, the company that currently builds a number of Apple products, expanding its operations to the U.S.
Apple's not the first company to bring some of its manufacturing to the U.S. Earlier this year it was reported that Lenovo was opening a plant in North Carolina to build ThinkPads and ThinkCentres. Let's see if this trend continues.
