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"Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the company will invest $100 million to bring production of its Mac computers back to the US, by way of partnerships with local suppliers, he revealed in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek.\r\n\r\nWhen pressed about Apple's commitment to manufacturing its products locally, Cook said: &amp;quot;Next year we are going to bring some production to the U.S. on the Mac. We\u2019ve been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it. It will happen in 2013. We\u2019re really proud of it.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nWith many of Apple's new Mac computers already bearing &amp;quot;Assembled in USA&amp;quot; notices, the company had been linked with a return to assembling products in the US. However, it appears the Apple chief wants more than that, adding that Apple &amp;quot;wanted to do something more substantial&amp;quot;:\r\nWe could have quickly maybe done just assembly, but it\u2019s broader because we wanted to do something more substantial. So we\u2019ll literally invest over $100 million. This doesn\u2019t mean that Apple will do it ourselves, but we\u2019ll be working with people, and we\u2019ll be investing our money.\r\nCook believes that since he became CEO in October 2011, Apple has become more transparent. Highlighting its agreements with suppliers and attempts to provide information about the working conditions of its factory workers are all part of this.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;We decided being more transparent about some things is great\u2014not that we were not transparent at all before, but we\u2019ve stepped it up in places where we think we can make a bigger difference, where we want people to copy us,&amp;quot; Cook notes. &amp;quot;So there are things that are different, but the most important thing by far is, the fiber of the place is the same.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nImage Credit: Deerkoski/Flickr\u00A0\r\n\r\n&amp;amp;nbsp;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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