ikr? Yeah the iPhone is a great product, but I wouldn’t consider it the pinnacle of human achievement. Pretty sure there are a few things left to be invented.
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Apple to Expand Seattle Presence With 2,000 New Hires Over Next 5 Years
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The issue of giant tech companies moving into cities and destroying housing affordability for people who don't work for those companies is well documented. Google and Microsoft have pledged $1.5 billion total dollars towards affordable housing in SF Bay Area and Seattle.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/7337...lion-trying-to-tame-housing-costs-in-bay-area
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...ffordable-housing-in-seattle-and-on-eastside/
I would like to know if Apple is doing or planning to do something similar. During a recent commencement speech, Tim Cook said that tech companies need to take responsibility for the chaos they create. The housing issue would seem to fall within that chaos.
And Tim Cook was a Compaq "cast off".
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/7337...lion-trying-to-tame-housing-costs-in-bay-area
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...ffordable-housing-in-seattle-and-on-eastside/
I would like to know if Apple is doing or planning to do something similar. During a recent commencement speech, Tim Cook said that tech companies need to take responsibility for the chaos they create. The housing issue would seem to fall within that chaos.
And Tim Cook was a Compaq "cast off".
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Pretty solid mass transit system?? You clearly don’t live in the Seattle area. As someone who works and commutes to Seattle every day, “solid” is not the word I would use to describe its transit system. It does start with “s” though.
Well, she got voted in the office. Funny how people don't want to vote politicians off, because I guess if they did, it said that they made the wrong choice... :shrug:
Actually Compaq was a Tim Cook cast-off. He punched out of there after six months; it didn’t take very long to realize it was a crap show there. A year later, Compaq was imploding.
Best career move ever.
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Not being flippant, but if 70% of your workforce requires post-secondary education, who's going to serve you food, ring up your groceries, or fix your plumbing?
Who can afford to?
But you can't off-shore your local services like @trusso asked, and even if you outsource, the outsource company still needs to find people locally to provide the services.
This is a problem many big cities are facing - high wages of a large skilled/technical workforce push property prices up so only people earning those high wages can afford to live there, forcing out the nurses, waiters, workers, shop assistants, cleaners, security guards etc - the people you need to sustain a city.
Great, so we'll start tripping over even more homeless people in Seattle...
Well to prove you correct, yes I'm upset with this because this push is a direct result of why many of my coworkers are losing their contract employment with Apple.
If I was Apple, i would come back to Detroit, they use to have a office there back in the early 90's. And with automobile automation would be a good place. Plus having all your technology along the west coast. Subject to earthquakes, tsunami's. forest fires and disasters. Spreading your tech across the whole united states might be a good idea.
But what do all these people really DO. In the last 10 years all we have seen come out of Apple is a MacBook Pro with a bad keyboard.
Will these new positions augment the existing AI and iCloud development teams there or will they be tasked with other responsibilities in software?
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I would love to see this as well. Detroit is working very hard to make itself a viable location once again. The cost of living on the west coast especially San Francisco has become unmanageable for all except the wealthy.
I live in Northern VA and skilled labor is paid very well. Certified mechanics make 80-100K a year. My go to electrician (licensed master electrician) lives in a bigger house than I do - and I am a "well educated professional".
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With all the hype surrounding the browns this year, you'll get your economic boom don't worry!!
With all the hype surrounding the browns this year, you'll get your economic boom don't worry!!
How did you type that with a straight face?
#HereWeGoSteelers
But it's Cleveland. There is a reason it's cheap to live there.
Sounds like Philly (where I live) without the refinery fires and "Gritty". Your team won the Cup. Ours folded when they were eliminated from the first round of the playoffs.
Apple and its minions must revere walking through human feces and stepping over derelict humans. This environment fits their image.
Ah yes. The perpetual dream of "light rail" in cities. Just like in Denver, Houston, North Haberbrook, Ogden, Brockway…
They get placed where no one really lives and go where no one really needs to go. They never solve the problem they were intended to solve. At best, suburbanites have a convenient way to get to subsidized sport stadiums, and suited businessmen can go to and from the airport in air conditioned comfort. Also, right next to the light rail stops will pop up new condos, eye-wateringly overpriced so that the people who least need to save money on "public transit" will use it for their own convenience.
But a boondoggle that launders money in the right direction? You bet!
So it ends up being congested traffic to get to the light rail, or, you have to leave your house to walk to a bus stop to wait 45 minutes to take a bus to the light rail.
"It'll be like Europe!" they all squeal. Completely disregarding the typical usable light rail in European cities in which people often use existing bike lanes to get there, not a "bike lane" that means weaving between parked cars and F-350s carrying lurching trailers of scrap metal over potholed streets. And old cities were built with tram infrastructures in mind, or old cow paths which are now bike lanes. American cities are bulldozed flat grids with lanes designed for nothing other than cars.
I've used the subway in Chicago and New York, and the difference is that those systems were built up when people really used them for public transport, not as show-pieces for money-laundering and greenwashing. There are huge problems with those systems, but it always dawned on me how bloody convenient it was that they were where they were with the realization that such a structure could never be built in a modern city by our modern planners.
The future of telecommuting and holographic telepresence cannot happen fast enough. Truth in point, I've done remote IT support for executives who have moved on to islands off the coast of Washington State, deliberately so that they do not have to commute to Seattle.