Apple Is the $2.3 trillion fortress that Tim Cook built

Austin Carr and Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Joe Biden had a question for Tim Cook: Why, the then-vice president wanted to know, couldn't Apple make the iPhone in the U.S.? It was January 2012, during President Barack Obama's reelection campaign and three months after the death of Cook's predecessor, Steve Jobs. And: As everyone at the dinner well knew, the idea of mass-producing an iPhone, or any advanced consumer electronics, in a domestic factory was an exceptionally tall order. The big Asian cont...