Nope.
Apple develops some of its hardware/software outside the USA.
when it does, the:
1. VPs/CEO are not the ones going there. They stay put.
2. The engineering team flies into USA monthly
Singapore unfortunately was never in the development for any of the cutting edge stuff. More like as a backend manufacturing site with tax breaks. They did not even transfer any of the high tech stuff over to Singapore to be manufactured. Just the low end stuff that they could not care less if it was copied as it will have no commercial value outside of apple's doors.
Apple develops some of its hardware/software outside the USA.
when it does, the:
1. VPs/CEO are not the ones going there. They stay put.
2. The engineering team flies into USA monthly
Singapore unfortunately was never in the development for any of the cutting edge stuff. More like as a backend manufacturing site with tax breaks. They did not even transfer any of the high tech stuff over to Singapore to be manufactured. Just the low end stuff that they could not care less if it was copied as it will have no commercial value outside of apple's doors.
The main software development work has to be done in Cupertino. If they did that outside the US, it would require the VPs & CEO to travel outside the US, slowing the development work.
The Spore R&D was working more on monitors & I think the speech recognition thing. Apple was manufacturing monitor in Spore & it made sense to have the team located in Spore.