Apple announced Friday that it was giving $200 million to Corning, which makes the tough, scratch-resistant face for every iPhone<br />and iPad, to support the glass maker’s efforts to develop and build more sophisticated products at its factory in Harrodsburg, Ky.<br />Corning has made the glass for every iPhone since the original 10 years ago.<br />Apple’s investment, the first from the technology giant’s $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing in the United States, will help Corning develop thinner, more versatile glass for iPhones as well as other product lines<br />that Apple is exploring, such as screens for self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses.<br />Apple Gives Corning $200 Million to Invent Better Phone Glass -<br />By VINDU GOELMAY 12, 2017<br />SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is seeding the next generation of American-made glass for its iPhones<br />and iPads, and its investments may have the side benefit of helping the company win favor in Washington.<br />“They are literally thinking about stuff you and I aren’t thinking about yet.”<br />The investment is also a good-will gesture toward Republicans, including President Trump, who has criticized Apple for building its iPhones in China,<br />and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who represents Kentucky.<br />Apple has accumulated more cash than any other company in the United States — $257 billion as of April 1 —<br />and virtually all of it is stashed untaxed in foreign bank accounts.
