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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.
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.
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
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
This will contribute to the further Californication of Texas.
Possibility: If Apple throws thousands of (temporary?) jobs to the USA then the American government will drop the tax on Apple imports from China. And the cities getting those (minimum wage) jobs will give tax breaks that pay for the jobs.
Austin is the containment zone for the caravans of California liberals who flood in.
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