在今晚的AllThings Digital D10大会上，苹果首席执行官蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）对该公司在美国和中国的生产实践提出了新的见解。在回答苹果是否能够或将投资美国**业的问题时，库克提供了该公司在美国运营的额外背景，表示：

This is not well known, but the engine for the iPhone and the iPad are built in the US. ...not just for the US but for the world. The glass on your iPhone is made in a plant in Kentucky.

库克的评论与之前的报道一致，该报道称苹果正在利用位于德克萨斯州的三星工厂生产A5和A5X移动处理器。他接着讨论了苹果是否可以将更多的努力转移到美国：

The truth is, the tool and die maker skill in the US began to go down in the late 60s, early 70s, and how many tool and die makers do you know in the US now? I could call a meeting around the United States and say, every tool and die maker come to this room tonight, we wouldn’t fill the room. In China, you would need several cities to fill with tool and die makers. And so, there has to be sort of a fundamental change in the education system and etc to bring back some of this. But there are things that we can do and that’s what we’re working on doing. And semiconductor business is fantastic in the United States. You know, we should do more semiconductors in the United States. The Corning glass in Kentucky. This is fantastic and so, we will do as many of these as we can do and you can bet that we will use the whole of our influence to do it.