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Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion (cnet.com)
Apple said Thursday it plans to invest $1 billion building a new corporate campus in Austin, Texas, that could eventually create 15,000 jobs. From a report: The iPhone maker will also set up new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, Los Angeles County, as well as expanding operations in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado, according to the press release.
The Austin campus will be located less than a mile away from Apple's existing facilities in the Texas city, which already employ 6,200 people (its largest group of employees outside Cupertino). The new area will initially hold 5,000 employees, with capacity to grow to 15,000 over time.
The Austin campus will be located less than a mile away from Apple's existing facilities in the Texas city, which already employ 6,200 people (its largest group of employees outside Cupertino). The new area will initially hold 5,000 employees, with capacity to grow to 15,000 over time.
The rest will be imports from Cali and overseas. The 25% would be support and/or maintenance crews, and MAYBE a smattering of B- and C- level execs to keep the masses happy.
Apple's after the lower wage and tax brackets, so it makes sense they would make this kind of move.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
This is close to Dell's headquarters, so this is a great chance for Apple to poach Dell's best employees. As a Dell employee myself (not in Texas), this can be good, as Dell may be pushed to increase pay and benefits.
We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area.
"We"? Speak for yourself and only for yourself. Your opinion is not widely shared in Austin. People have been moving to Austin in droves precisely because it is a good place to live, the city is (mostly) well run, and there are great jobs to be had there as a tech hub. If that's not your brand of vodka, fine but that's your problem.
You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
A) You being uncomfortable with someone who isn't a conservative is your problem, not anyone else's
B) Evidently you've never actually been to Austin if you think it's overrun by conservatives. Hell I consider it a bastion of sanity in Texas.
C) The notion that Texas is uniformly conservative is a ridiculous myth. At most it's around 58%/42% skewing conservative based on recent election results.
Not the only one. Although they're not nearly as left-leaning, Dallas, (but NOT Fort Worth,) and San Antonio are both blue areas.
You are right to be concerned. I'm from Texas but lived in Colorado for the last 20 years. It went from a red state to a blue state in that time and the Commiefornians are coming here in droves and have thoroughly changed the place for the worse. It's amazing that they ruin their own beautiful state with sky high taxes, hordes of illegals & homeless folks they created, brain dead regulation, zoning laws that gentrify areas + lock-out new home building, and then they want to come here and make all the same mistakes. Too bad they can't just stay there and stew in the hell they created for themselves. It's so unfortunate that people come to Texas to take advantage of the low taxes and more reasonable levels of regulation but then seem to think "Hey, let's make this into California since it worked out so well there!"
Not here. This isn't as bad as Amazon coming in, but please, not here. We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area. You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
It is how I feel about all the Texans moving to where I live. We sure as fuck don't want their inbred ideals. And why can't a Texan ever tell the truth? The way to tell they are lying is whenever they open their mouths. Just a state of cowards.
IS Austn getting anything out of the deal, or have they sold the farm? Kind of funny Apple would set up shop with employees being so hard to attract right no
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
While I respect your opinion and point of view, I really hate NIMBY folks. It's like, "Austin is nice now that *I'm* here, so please stop all progress." I like progress. Some aspects are good, some bad, but in general, it's for me. I'll strongly disagree with you, and also disagree that progress and growth has to equate us turning into the Bay Area.
Yes. Beto won Austin, and other major cities in Texas, handily.
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/texas-senate
Houston is also a very liberal city.
The only reason Texas is considered a "red" state is because of gerrymandering. It's changing, and fast. Soon, Texas will go back to being a Democratic state.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'll strongly disagree with you, and also disagree that progress and growth has to equate us turning into the Bay Area.
Just to hedge my bets, I'm registering austinpoopmap.com!
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
They said jobs, so it is at least 10x number of gender studies graduates as 9 out of 10 of these are unemployed and trolling social media full time.
Considering that Austin is described as the blueberry in the tomato soup, it's already the bay area.
But you pussy liberals have to go to Texas to acquire your energy needs. Which by the way is being produced in a number of different ways. Including renewable.
Funny, listing off the top 10 states that produce renewable energy. Texas is there, FUCKING CALIFORNIA IS NOT. Yup, those god damn hill billy's are producing more renewable energy then you bigoted fucking pussy liberals.
https://www.renewableenergywor...
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Sorry, I see California now. Must have missed them due to them caring more about bullet trains then their huge homeless problem they don't give a fuck about.
What ever, you cunt liberals still import 45 percent of your energy from other states.
Yet, beyond power rates 45% above the U.S. average, California has another problem that makes it less of a model than some proclaim. California now imports 33% of its electricity supply from fast growing neighbors, with about 65% of that coming from the Southwest and 35% coming from the Northwest. These numbers increase most in summer months when air conditioning loads peak. Imports have been rising rapidly: in 2010, California "only" imported 25% of its power.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2016/04/03/californias-growing-imported-electricity-problem/#382edfd64469
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It's amusing how people in red states view California.
We try not to disabuse them of those notions because we don't want them coming here.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Except that's really how bad some of the areas in LA, SF and SD actually are. Hell, we had a really bad hepatitis outbreak in SD because of our homeless problems. This stuff is actually happening.
I can't comment on Texas but being in San Diego can definitely comment on California and SD.
We use to have brownouts back then. I haven't had any issues in my area of San Diego for quite a while. You are still right about all you said though.
That's unfortunately why there is no real reason for me to leave San Diego. All the places I may want to move to for cost of living and lower taxes are well on their way to being made into California, but without the awesome weather San Diego has.
I would tolerate snow for a better overall standard of life, but that's not actually available anymore unless you really go to the middle of no where.
I'll just stay in my condo and dream of a massive market crash as it will be the only way I will get into a house. EVER.
Luckily, it is coming. Bought my condo in the last crash and can't wait for the next crash to get into a small house.
Yeah, about that "San Diego Hepatitis Outbreak". It's a nationwide outbreak occurring in rural areas of Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana at a higher rate than in any California city. Also, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Unlike the AC pussy, I do not think everyone from a group/area is bad. Just the extremists. The AC is a pussy extremist that could not survive on their own. I actually don't care about a persons political leanings. I hate extremist republicans as much as I hate the pussy AC liberal extremist. The AC is a bigot. And the only good bigot is a dead one. Because the AC is a mouth. I am sure they will be dead soon.
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Apple sells designer hardware that's WAY over priced.
No, just generally built with better components and engineering.
Yes they sometimes charge more to upgrade some aspects like RAM, but for the hardware you are getting what you pay for.
Dell sells servers - Apple does not.
Apple sells the Mac mini, so you are wrong.
Dell sells Windows PCs - Apple does not.
Apple explicitly supports Windows on any Apple desktop hardware, so you are wrong.
Dell is diversified for the corporate enterprise market as an IT solution provider - Apple is not.
Well that was sure a load of bullshit, but in any case Apple does have enterprise support in multiple ways, including remote management, and internally facing applications - so you are wrong.
Dell sell cheaper hardware that's functional and modular - Apple does not
All Apple hardware is functional. Can you upgrade video cards in Dell laptops? No? HMM, guess they are not ALL modular as you claim then. And Apple will soon have a newer Mac Pro that is fully modular...
So you are basically on the edge of being wrong there, we'll just call it wrong because of your past errors.
It's like saying Harley Davidson will open up an office next to Toyota and poach the best employees.
I think you meant that to sound silly but what would be odd about a company working on very compact internal combustion engines wanting to hire someone who had worked on very compact internal combustion engines?
Here's my advice to you - if you don't understand computers OR car analogies well, you are better off not posting on Slashdot until you understand at least one well (probably best to start with car analogies, this being Slashdot and all).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The things that are attracting Apple to there - the low taxes and so forth - are due to the conservatism.
Umm, no. The reason Apple is interested is because there is a lot of tech talent already there and the city knows how to work with big tech companies productively. Furthermore Apple is ALREADY big in Austin with over 6000 employees currently. Any other reasons are minor in comparison. Taxes played at most a minor role in why tech talent is in Austin. Apple is interested in the area because a lot of other tech companies (Amazon, Dell, Intel, Oracle, IBM, Indeed, Electronic Arts, Facebook, National Instruments, etc) have already established there and they can get the talent they need. There also is a company that comparatively few have heard of called Trilogy that did a lot back around the dotcom boom to bring high level talent to the area.
Do you live here? Next to Apple's campus at Riata is Oracle, up the street is Flextronics. Cadence has a building in that general area, IBM has a few locations, Synopsys is down on Mopac near Intel, ARM is down the street from them (I think they're still there, they were moving to a larger building I thought a few years ago). AMD has a huge ass campus down south, along with Freescale. Dell is all up and down I-35. Those are just a few.
Texas made the choice of attracting out of state businesses with low taxes, at the expense of normalizing its politics with the rest of the US. It was a very profitable decision, particularly within Austin. It is unfortunate perhaps for some of the natives, that educated workers tend to lean left, in spite of making well above average salaries and having more to lose by wretched socialism. But yes, it will drive Texas back towards the center. Arizona is going to have the same problem in another ten years.
You're free to move to the south-east, they have firmly decided they want no money and would rather hold true to their values, although I would not include Florida in that, they are far too intertwined with the rest of the world to remain reliably conservative.
We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area.
There's no danger of that, because there's no bay. Just a dinky little lake.
You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
Austin is already quite leftist, especially compared to the rest of Texas, and Texas itself would already be a blue state if not for gerrymandering — albeit by a slight margin. As a Californian I had no trouble fitting in with the native nerds. In fact, I was more socially successful there and among them than among my native, Californian geeks.
I left because the weather sucked, but if it's going to suck everywhere...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
This will contribute to the further Californication of Texas.
You have the wrong approach. Buy five condos in the next crash and rent them out. Then live rent-free in your condo, using the monthly rent checks to cover your HOA, tax, and mortgage, hopefully with a few thousand per month left over.
Texas has been prosperous precisely because of fiscal conservatism.
Texas has been prosperous because it has a about 1/3 of US oil reserves and oil is doing well. 4 of the 5 largest companies based in Texas are oil and gas companies. That's how they can get away with the tax policies they do. Many other states don't have massive oil reserves to take up the slack. If conservatism were such a boon then how do you explain California which clearly is not conservative leaning having a far larger economy than Texas despite having higher tax burdens as a general proposition?
California is a nice place, but has too many NIMBY cowards. They should be planning to replace San Onofre with a newer-generation reactor, not closing it down without plans for replacement.
You know the best part of this conversation with the liberal bigot. He ASSUMES(just made an ass out of him) that I live in Texas. I just am just not a dumb fuck like him and can look up non biased references to back up what I have to say. The only thing this cunt can do is show their true colors as a bigot. Dead bigots = Good bigots.
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We don't want the capital of Texas to turn into the bay area. You can keep your leftist attitudes and taxes where they are.
Then grow some balls, learn from the French and go out there and break something. Bring all your buddies. Burn some shit down. Go torch a couple of Apple stores. They will get the message quick and retreat. Note how quickly Macron folded and gave up his fossil fuel Climate Tax once a couple hundred thousand Frenchies took to the streets.
Problem with you red state "conservatives" is that all you do is sit on you fat asses drinking beer and watching NASCAR. You don't actually *do* anything when action is needed. Only whine and gripe on your keyboard and talk radio.
BTW I'm completely serious, if you get even 10,000 angry marchers I'll bet you Apple leaves town in a hurry.
The marches in France aren't only angry about the fuel tax. The fuel tax was the straw that broke the camel's back. The real issues are tax cuts for the very rich and corporations combined with service cuts in areas that aren't Paris or the coastal South. The protests in France are actually LEFTIST in nature.
"Anonymous COWARD" is about right. They should build a coal-belching plant up the street from you. Fukushima was a badly-designed 1960s-era nuclear power plant -- new plants have much better engineering than v. 1.0.
The Mac Pro will be modular, but if you want to replace a module yourself, you'll have to go to an Apple store and beg the "genii" to activate the stinking thing.
Just as you can use standard RAM in Apple hardware today that you can buy from any source, or attach any monitor you like to any Mac, you'll be able to use standard components in the new Mac Pro....
So you are wrong. Again.
Like I said, start with learning about cars.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The future should be renewables AND nuclear. It's the fossil fools and fossil farts (coal, natural gas) that need to be phased out.
Those brownouts were during the wonderful Pete Wilson republican halcyon days when deregulation would solve all of Cali's energy problems. Remember Enron?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Interesting. That's solid logic, at least. For all the bad parts of California, it's hard to argue about the weather. It's awesome. Snow can be fun if you have some mountains to go with it. Snow in Kansas, well.... Uh, maybe have a snowball fight? When it comes to dreaming of buying a house, I'm in the same boat. Where I live with my low six-figure salary - there is little chance it'll happen without some severe re-adjustment in prices.
Overturn Jimmy "Peanutboy" Carter's edict about reprocessing. Waste = new fuel. Store what remains underground.
Many more people move INTO Texas, dumbfuck. Nobody is clamoring to move to your shit hole state. They are probably leaving just to get away from people like you.
This is rather close to where I live, so I expect to see my already rising property value shoot up, along with traffic levels. If we were looking to sell the house, it'd be one thing, but we aren't, so it's another.
Speak for yourself. I want more jobs to move into the area for which I'm at least marginally qualified. I also own property; to the extent it increases cost-of-living, it also causes my property to appreciate.
All infested whores are AC liberals. How many infected cocks have you fucked bitch?
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
My French friends in the Amiga scene say it's over immigration. They are tired of being inundated with North Africans and Middle Eastern folks and they think Macron just wants to push down wages for the working class using migrants. That definitely worked here in the USA with Mexico and other South American migration. If you watch the leftist media they claim the Yellow Vests are leftists. If you watch right winger media they claim they are all on *their* side. My guess is that it's a reflection of a cross section. Given that the French are politically left of center as a group, they are mostly leftists. However, that partisan shit isn't a good way to look at anything (ask the Greeks). I'd say that the French people just finally got fed up over a whole host of issues.
You nailed it. It's like any /. story on systemd. You can bet there won't be any mods with leftover points after something like and that the final score of any individual comment will simply be based on which enraged group of partisans had the most mod points at the time when the article was published.
Why do you have to reply to my comments with this crap? I'm not creimer.
I'm sorry that your Apple stock took a major hit, but that's the risk.
Has it? I wouldn't know, I just buy it every so often and in 20-30 years I may sell some.
The dividends certainly have not taken any hits, they keep increasing...
Thanks for reminding me to buy some more with the dividends, if it's really down I am in luck!
Fact is, Apple hardware is based on the designer BYOD market. Everything Apple does is antithetical to Dell. Dell sells real PowerEdge servers, complete with fault tollerence PSUs, ECC RAM,
I thought you were going to say Dell was antithetical to Apple because it was mostly super cheap and crappy. Imagine my surprise when you went the other way arguing Dell has higher quality systems! Ok, you do you I guess!
By the way, Apple uses ECC RAM in a number of pro products... If you didn't even know that why on earth should I, or anyone, take anything you have to say seriously?
Even though I didn't read the rest of it, just what you wrote there sure seems to point to Apple being able to make great use of the people at Dell that do work on higher end systems.
Apple does also design their own chips as well you know, and I'm certain there are a lot of firmware developers at Dell that probably know what they are doing.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Really?
Try buying and even carrying the same guns and knives in CA that you are free to do in TX for one example.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Austin is the containment zone for the caravans of California liberals who flood in.
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