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Apple's Jonathan Ive Says Immigration Vital For UK Firms (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the business-101 dept.

The UK must keep its doors open to top talent from around the world if its technology firms are to thrive, Apple's chief designer has told the BBC. An anonymous reader shares the article: Sir Jonathan Ive, who has just been appointed Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, also said that technology hubs like Silicon Valley had a "tremendous cultural diversity". Some technology firms fear they may lose access to talent after Brexit. "That general principle [on access] is terribly important for creating a context for multiple companies to grow and in a healthy way explore and develop new products and new product types," Sir Jonathan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Sir Jonathan said the UK had a "fabulous tradition of design education", but that it needed to do more to become a technology hub on a par with Silicon Valley in California, where the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google are based. "I think Silicon Valley has infrastructures to support start-up companies... ranging from technological support through to funding," he said. "And there is the sense that failure isn't irreversible, so very often people will work on an idea, and there isn't the same sense of stigma when one idea and perhaps one company doesn't work out."

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  1. Or... by ConaxConax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about Apple trains up some Brits?

  2. The stinking rich need welfare too . . . by geehzer67 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With only $250+ billion sitting in offshore accounts, the big brains at apple can't figure out how to train the locals, either in the public school system or in house. Back in the day, HP, IBM, ATT, GE, Ford, blah, blah, blah, did this for pretty much their entire work force. Seemed to work OK post-war through Reagan/Thatcher. I wonder what's changed? /s

    1. Re:The stinking rich need welfare too . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      With only $250+ billion sitting in offshore accounts, the big brains at apple can't figure out how to train the locals, either in the public school system or in house. Back in the day, HP, IBM, ATT, GE, Ford, blah, blah, blah, did this for pretty much their entire work force. Seemed to work OK post-war through Reagan/Thatcher. I wonder what's changed? /s

      What happened?

      Cultural Marxism/intersectionality/political correctness took over academia and produced special snowflakes that need safe spaces.

      Geez, if you were Russia or China and wanted to undermine the US and Western Europe....

    2. Re:The stinking rich need welfare too . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      retard

      That explains why white Christians from the US who don't agree with gay marriage but otherwise follow "live and let live" are evil Nazis while Arab Muslims who literally treat women as property and actually kill gays are allowed free reign.

      Oh, yeah, I forgot. Arabs Muslims are "People of Color" and it's OK to hate whitey.

      You need to grow a brain.

  3. When... by sycodon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...are these people going to stop pretending it's about talent?

    It's not. It's about cheap, compliant, captive labor.

    Disagree? YOU explain why these so-fucking-smart people need to be trained for six months by the locals they are replacing.

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  4. I'm sick of this shit. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple loves to tell everyone how to run their society but then they go and dodge taxes which are a fundamental underpinning of any modern society. I think Apple needs to pay up or shut the fuck up.

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