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Apple CEO Tim Cook On Apple's US Manufacturing Move
We mentioned a few days back the "Assembled in America" tag showing up on some models of Apple's iMac. Nerval's Lobster points out that in a new interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered some details on what that means: "'Next year we are going to bring some production to the U.S. on the Mac,' Cook told the magazine. 'We've been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it. It will happen in 2013. We're really proud of it. We could have quickly maybe done just assembly, but it's broader because we wanted to do something more substantial.' He also had comments about Android and current litigation against Samsung and others."
It'll be a Foxconn plant though, not an Apple one.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/foxconn-plans-american-expansion-as-clients-seek-made-in-u-s-a-.html
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> Usually the minimum qualifications are a high school diploma,
You will need at least some jobs like that. Not everyone is capable of (or wants) higher education, some people just missed the boat, others like immigrants will take the opportunity to improve their children's station.
Not everyone without an advanced degree can work in fast food joints, so #1 still gives you a boost to entry-level US jobs as well as a spectrum of jobs up the pay scale including design. manufacturing, engineering, maintenance and so on.