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"Apple has put up a\u00A0new page on its website\u00A0touting that it has created some 514,00 jobs in the U.S., reports All Things D. The company says that the jobs stem from various aspects of its business here in the states, including manufacturing, application development, its own employees and more.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe page quotes reports from various analysis groups and focus on several major areas. Jobs at Apple, its Retail Stores, customer support call centers based here, U.S. Jobs supported by Apple and the 'app economy' created by its various App Stores.\r\n\r\nApple breaks down how its business inside the U.S. has supplied jobs:\r\nA study by Analysis Group found that Apple has directly or indirectly created 304,000 U.S. jobs.*These jobs \u2014 spread across all 50 states \u2014 include thousands of jobs in numerous industries, from the people who create components for our products to the people who build the planes and trucks that carry them to our customers. For example, this figure also includes workers in Texas who manufacture processors for iOS products, Corning employees in Kentucky and New York who create the majority of the glass for iPhone, and FedEx and UPS employees. Together with the 210,000 iOS jobs generated by the app economy, these 304,000 jobs make a total of 514,000 U.S. jobs created or supported by Apple.\r\nIn a recent New York Times article on Apple's business in China, a famous quote by founder Steve Jobs was pulled out about jobs leaving the U.S.. &amp;quot;Those jobs aren't coming back,&amp;quot; Jobs said in reply to a question from President Obama about how to bring the manufacturing here to the states, rather than rely on China.\r\n\r\nIn this report, Apple explicitly states that some 257,000 jobs at other companies include the fields of 'development and manufacturing of components, materials, and equipment.'\r\n\r\nThe app economy has also been a hot topic lately with a recent report\u00A0indicating that 466,000 jobs have been created by it since 2008. It can\u2019t be argued that the market is infinitely larger since the App Store hit the scene.\r\n\r\nThis is an interesting move from the company and can be seen as a response to some who believe that Apple should move more of its business, especially manufacturing, back to the United States from other countries like China. It's Apple saying, 'hey, we do create and maintain a lot of jobs here still.' While it doesn't reply directly to the decades-long shift of manufacturing overseas by tech companies, it does make a direct statement about its contributions."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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