Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year
I assume this is because Tim Cook is bowing to political pressure where Steve Jobs refused.  Remember when Steve Jobs said, "Those jobs aren’t coming back" [1]?  The question is - why now?<p>Hacker News discussion [2].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494389" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3494389</a>