Products

Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.

Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. "Those jobs aren’t coming back," he said, according to another dinner guest.


--"How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, New York Times, January 21, 2012