Unlike you, Marianne, he simply looks at whats best for Apple (shareholders), and works backwards to justify it. He should do as you do, which is to start from first principles and work forward. He is disingenuous.

People ... all over the world ... will create Apps for the iPhone ... no matter where it's made ... even if it's made here ... in the USA!

OMG! It's tone deaf nonsense like this that helps Trump's xenophobia take root!

He's trying to justify making money at whatever the environmental or social cost. It's like the tobacco companies justifying selling a killer product "because people want it." Corps. are all about the $$$. CEO's who don't return ever higher profit are toast. His reasoning is BS.

Do you think it's only our education system? I've been teaching children to code for decades, it's something I loved as a child and in the 90's CS, engineering, etc were all on the rise, and remain at record highs. Yet still, it's a small % of our population who go into it. 1/2

Then Apple can move and become a Chinese corporation. Good luck with that. If they wish to do business here, they're gonna need to hire US workers.

Cook is not naive, he knows what he's doing. That makes him a sociopath. And most (not all) corporate "leaders" must be(come) sociopaths to satisfy the ever increasing thirst for profits at any cost to the the world.

@tim_cook why don't you invest in the future of THIS country sir, 2 educate the upcoming generation so that the skills needed 2 make the millions of Apple products that u design in California, & sell 2 the parents of American children, earning billions 4 Apple cd b made here?!