Maybe he owns property there and is excited to increase the rent.
I'm looking forward to the day when $100K annual salary is considered poverty level.
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Maybe he owns property there and is excited to increase the rent.
I'm looking forward to the day when $100K annual salary is considered poverty level.
Why do so many people act like these other companies are running their businesses better than Apple? Apple is THE most profitable company in world and have a handle on how to execute a strategy.
Some of you guys are so anti-Apple, it's ridiculous and frankly, objectively wrong.
Some of you guys are so anti-Apple, it's ridiculous and frankly, objectively wrong.
I've been saying the same thing for years.
Apple Stores in the Seattle area are primarily in the suburbs.
The one in University Village is to far from transit and Downtown.
It’s strange isn’t it? So many other big cities have some sort of cool statement piece apple store downtown...even Portland does. Why do we only get them in malls? Also I realize they would likely want the store to be around Westlake Center where all of the retail is, but imagine one on the waterfront or in pioneer square...lots of amazing potential for an iconic apple store here. I just don’t understand..
I love being in that area around lunchtime. They always seem to have cool food trucks... like the Indian food one... Naansense
The more important real estate info not disclosed is the square footage of free defecation space surrounding the building.
So well said, your last sentence should be the slogan for this forum really.
I bought my first PC in that "mess" - a Zenith 8086 system from Seattle Micro in 1984. They had space in one of the old industrial warehouse spaces near the monorail route. The system didn't even have a HD, just two floppies, ran DOS 3. I installed an HD a year later - a whole 20 MB. Loss of these old buildings is definitely a mixed blessing. Seattle's "look and feel" has changed drastically over the past 30 years.
Apparently, you are unaware of the well-documented impact of large tech companies on already-overcrowded urban centers, particularly ones that have concentrations of tech workers:
1. Very few jobs for locals-- almost all new jobs are for software developers and their support; and those people already are highly employable and have jobs.
2. Pulls in highly paid professionals from outside the area who drive up rents for locals, forcing locals to live further out.
3. Depressed nearby restaurants. These high tech places provide free meals to their employees, and often hire their own chefs. When these new companies replace former business that did not provide free food services, business at local eateries actually goes down.
This is a real problem in Seattle especially, where companies such as Amazon grew enormously over a very short period, with very little regard to their impact on the city.
But it's also a problem to some extent in Silicon Valley, which grew more slowly, and is a bit less dense than a traditional urban center. With very little thought to providing affordable housing or transportation infrastructure, there are no nearby places for non-tech people who provide essential services (teachers, retail, maintenance, etc.) to live.
I have no idea where you live, and what your perspective is. It would be great if tech companies branched into alternative areas where there were a limited number of tech professionals-- in an area like that, highly paid tech employees could be drivers for the local economy. But Seattle and Silicon Valley are excessively unbalanced, with more highly paid the workers than a stable economy can handle.
For someone who likes to talk about human rights and social justice, Tim Cook is surprisingly silent on affordable housing issues.
Spoken like a typical xenophobe of today's generation. Sickening.
Easy on the labels, buddy. I was only pointing out maybe Google should be more like Apple if they want hardware success. If Apple were using tons of foreign designers from Pakistan, Google should try that. The point was never WHO was designing it, rather that Apple does a better job with hardware and Google should emulate that.
Get a grip. Not everyone is a racist because the media tells you it’s a rampant social problem.