- upcoming changes in tax laws that remove the incentive to move jobs overseas
- IP protection. Its finally sunk in that their Chinese suppliers feed any engineering info straight to the local government.
- increasing jingoism in the United States
- realization that their current line of creating "good American jobs" through their retail chain is falling apart.
- the shine from all of the "good jobs" they created with their NC data center is wearing off.
$100 million is really chump change for this kind of investment for a company like Apple. It's about what Cook made from his first year as Apple CEO.
- upcoming changes in tax laws that remove the incentive to move jobs overseas
- IP protection. Its finally sunk in that their Chinese suppliers feed any engineering info straight to the local government.
- increasing jingoism in the United States
- realization that their current line of creating "good American jobs" through their retail chain is falling apart.
- the shine from all of the "good jobs" they created with their NC data center is wearing off.
$100 million is really chump change for this kind of investment for a company like Apple. It's about what Cook made from his first year as Apple CEO.