Steve Denning has a great article elsewhere on Forbes about Apple and GE bringing manufacturing back to the USA. But in the course of the article Steve also lets slip why, even if it is good news, it is not as important as we want it to be.

The reason is: jobs represent a lower and lower proportion of hardware production. And hardware represents less and less of the value-added in a product.There are profound implications in that statement.
Let me give you a few examples of where the jobs’ dilemma really lies. A couple of months ago Malcolm Frank of Cognizant told me his company had 100 recruiters out on the road in the USA but they had a problem in finding the people they needed: people with a mix of business and IT talent who could talk strategy to clients and prospects.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2012/12/09/does-it-matter-that-apple-and-ge-are-bringing-back-manufacturing/