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Apple has promised to produce more Mac computers in the United States of America

In the midst of growing controversy regarding offshore working conditions and the loss of American manufacturing jobs, Apple has announced that it is planning to manufacture it’s popular Mac computers in the USA. While many argue as to whether or not this move is political or economical, it has demonstrated that Apple is still committed to addressing the humanitarian issues which have arisen at Foxconn. Apple’s prepared to invest $100 million to develop it’s manufacturing facilities in the USA; a cost necessary to, in Tim Cook’s words, live up to their “responsibility to create jobs.”

Apple’s bold move reassures all of it’s stakeholders (customers, employees, suppliers, financiers, and communities), that moving a portion of it’s manufacturing plants to the USA, in addition to improving working conditions in Foxconn, will help expand and improve working conditions of it’s employees. Through the use of automation in it’s factories, Apple will still be able to maintain it’s cost efficiency in American production plants, despite higher worker wages. This move has allowed Apple to promise low operational costs to it’s financiers, while benefiting local communities through job creation, and a commitment to improve working conditions for all of it’s employees.