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Apple Reportedly Opening New R&D Center in Cambridge, England
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Apple has been announced to be "doomed" every single year since the beginning of its existence.
There's also ARM and IMG, whose IP is the basis of the CPU and GPU respectively in every iOS device to date. I'm sure that didn't hurt.
I take your point but the use of so many different companies and the infamous double-Irish back to back deal with Bermuda meant I used the word deliberately .
If Apple simply booked their UK sales to a UK company for example they would pay UK tax whether the cash was held in the UK or ultimately elsewhere. There is far more smoke and mirrors than just holding the cash offshore.
While that's true, given that you can find where Apple (or any other Company subject to SEC disclosure requirements) maintains its holdings in a public document (10Q) "hidden" seems a bit over the top.
Apple has always had an on-off relationship with what is (or maybe should have been) the UK's Silicon Valley. They were once a major shareholder in ARM and collaborated with Acorn Computers (which sadly should have been the British Apple) on Xemplar, a joint venture selling to the UK education market.
Acorn were briefly lined up to be another Mac clone producer but the StrongARM Risc PC came along and frankly pooed all over the Macs of the day so Acorn continued with that. In the same year the iMac launched Acorn were due to produce Phoebe, a next-gen system (or at least a bridge to the next generation) but it was abruptly cancelled and the iconic brand was scrapped and its remnants become just another Cambridge design house. Acorn's ARM, designed by english transexual Sophie Wilson, had already been spun off into Advanced Risc Machines.
All rather sad really as my Risc PC, in the context of its time, was the most beautiful computer I've ever owned.
Here's a beautiful drama The Micro Men, which depicts the early Acorn era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcAyFVK0gE
Acorn were briefly lined up to be another Mac clone producer but the StrongARM Risc PC came along and frankly pooed all over the Macs of the day so Acorn continued with that. In the same year the iMac launched Acorn were due to produce Phoebe, a next-gen system (or at least a bridge to the next generation) but it was abruptly cancelled and the iconic brand was scrapped and its remnants become just another Cambridge design house. Acorn's ARM, designed by english transexual Sophie Wilson, had already been spun off into Advanced Risc Machines.
All rather sad really as my Risc PC, in the context of its time, was the most beautiful computer I've ever owned.
Here's a beautiful drama The Micro Men, which depicts the early Acorn era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcAyFVK0gE
I live really close to this and walk by that building every day. In fact, my neighbour is one of the guys who helped renovate it (weird coincidence).
It's a great location, but actually kind of small and very open to the main thoroughfare street.
I somehow can't see Apple setting up shop there.
It's a great location, but actually kind of small and very open to the main thoroughfare street.
I somehow can't see Apple setting up shop there.
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R&D is not done by the same people as slave labor manufacturing, that was the point being made.
You just nailed the main reason for this.
ARM is almost all Cambridge boys. While some of the first ARM processors were designed by a dozen British ex-pats on University Avenue in Los Gatos near the dam (several were regulars at the Black Watch tavern for a while), a lot of design work has come back to England.
I'm sure Jony will have his corner office overlooking the Botanic Garden. There is sure to be a lot of engineering and high security hardware benches with the latest silicon hand delivered from ARM.
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Not to mention the women at the neighboring schools. Still have a thing for an Isles accent.
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While China claims to have "R&D" their government expects to keep control while allowing a specific and isolated segment to be "creative" while keeping the cultural status quo.
History has shown it never works that way. Innovation is like a Genie out of a bottle that transposes across every section of society changing the leadership via personnel turnover and more free ideologies.
Bet against China in the long run. It is just another centralized bureaucracy that will collapse upon itself eventually.
In due time, Mao's portraits will only be in museums.
You do realise we don't use your Monopoly money right? The dollar is currently worth around £0.60.
In that Vanity Fair interview he said the commute to Cupertino right now was around 2 hours. The house is probably for his wife.
Lucky bastard. I'm marry him if I got to live there, and I'm straight!
Edit: and a man
You do know that Ive doesn't design processors , electronic circuitry or write any code ? There absolutely no link between what is made in Cambridge and Ive's work.
Yep, my dad was actually sales director for Acorn computers in the period depicted in the drama (linked above) and he's always been very proud of the ARM processor that the team developed.
Funnily enough my first experience of Apple was an Apple II that my dad "borrowed" from Acorn's R&D department
No, we didn't mind the thickness as it was and wanted more battery, not thin for the sake of being thin (and bendable apparently).
Probably not a photoshop.
There's "fake houses" in London/New York/Paris to hide the open parts of the subways.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...es-just-hidden-portals-underground-world.html
Duh! Many parts of Apple will be in these Cambridge offices. Design, engineering, marketing and I'm sure UK sales.