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Maybe Apple has realized that top talent might tend to not want to work in an office at all. If top talent is told they need to they've got the option to go work elsewhere.
Frankly speaking no. Most top company these days expects workers to show up most time.
 
Maybe Apple has realized that top talent might tend to not want to work in an office at all. If top talent is told they need to they've got the option to go work elsewhere.
Exactly. Top talent has options. All this return to the office has done is leave legacy employers with mediocre employees with no alternative employers that actually want them.
 
You’d think that by 2024 we’d all know that money won’t bring you satisfaction or happiness. Your quality of life will be in the tank. If high home prices made an area great, then there wouldn’t have been a mass exodus out of California (the Bay Area especially) and NYC literally the second COVID enabled people to get out of their high home value, crime ridden, congested, no parking hellscapes.
 
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Perhaps Apple is waiting on the outcome of the governor's race... if a certain... candidate were to win, I could see them and other companies scaling back or leaving entirely...
My God we can only hope. These tech companies can go further destroy Austin or anywhere in Tennessee. I hear the locals are thrilled about the changes these transplants are making to their once lovely areas.
 
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Just a thought. Maybe Apple is no longrt getting the top engineers anymore. Used to be Apple was a great place to work. Now that engineering is boiling down to "How can we make it thinner?", an Apple campus doesn't hold the cachet it once did.
the ipod nano came out in 2005
 
I guess Vision Pro didn’t meet expectations lol. Also that area is not ready for this. I travel there often for work. It’s a nice area and it would be a shame to overdevelop it and fill it with a displaced population. When NYC, Boston, & California folks move in it starts to divide up the local community. Nobody local will get hired, it will all be relocation probably. There is a lack of available talent there.
 
A reality distortion field facility is a big investment. Maybe the geology was not compatible with the field? Maybe there was a destructive interference encountered.

A report found that despite initial testing, android and windows were still the OS of choice within the area of the planned development.

Or maybe it was only ever meant to be a storage space for Craig Federighi’s hair. And that alternative storage space site was deemed more appropriate.

There could be many reasons… the two possibilities above are the most likely 😜
 
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One of the most beautiful places in the US but has also now become unaffordable for most.
I travel there every few years.love it. Been doing this for 35 years. In fact I’m going back a month or so for a few weeks. Take care of some business
 
Just a thought. Maybe Apple is no longrt getting the top engineers anymore. Used to be Apple was a great place to work. Now that engineering is boiling down to "How can we make it thinner?", an Apple campus doesn't hold the cachet it once did.
Perhaps you should go watch one of the 123 video sessions that Apple released at WWDC. Then you'll see what they are up to. And that's just the software side of things.
 
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Some states are more "dangerous" to invest in than others. Usually, the cheapest with the most incentives are the most dangerous.
Thank goodness, they didn't consider Georgia.

Most of the Southeastern U.S.A. seems to want corporate money but not the people that go with it.
 
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This location is Unique, universities, collages, nursing homes, Retirement people, Health related industry, quality of life advantage’s. North Carolina people from NY, California etc moving to NC.
 
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These are the kinds of things you put a pause on when it’s clear certain economic realities make that popping sound in the next 1-3 years…

Google paused another building at their Kirkland area in April. Many other corporate giants have been scaling back their real estate expansions and holdings.

I suspect WFH and remote work in general is driving a lot of vacancies and cancellations. Why spend money on empty buildings.
 
There are many companies in the tech sector moving into the triangle. They need to first get Amp Housing so workers will work within the location of their dev. NC has many protected lands in the area. They are always changing regulations on how and where they can and cannot build. Affordable hosing is a big problem for Tringale and surrounding areas.
What is Amp Housing?
 
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