Apple worried about constitutional changes in considering North Carolina campus
Apple, though interested in putting a new campus in the state, is concerned about North Carolina politicians "meddling with constitutional amendments for political influence," according to one report.
CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams are being regularly updated on political developments, a source described as "connected to local government affairs" told the Triangle Business Journal. The claim was reiterated by a Triangle real estate source. Earlier this summer Apple was reported to be considering North Carolina's Triangle corridor for a future campus hosting thousands of workers.
The state government is said to be going "back and forth" on constitutional amendments. The Journal didn't identify which issue or issues Apple is concerned about, though it's presumably focused on anything that could have a financial impact, as well as topics the company has touched on before, namely LGBT rights.
Apple is no stranger to the state, of course. The company already has a data center in the state.
In January Apple said it was expecting to announce a new U.S. campus sometime in 2018. The facility should initially concentrate on AppleCare.
CEO Tim Cook and COO Jeff Williams are being regularly updated on political developments, a source described as "connected to local government affairs" told the Triangle Business Journal. The claim was reiterated by a Triangle real estate source. Earlier this summer Apple was reported to be considering North Carolina's Triangle corridor for a future campus hosting thousands of workers.
The state government is said to be going "back and forth" on constitutional amendments. The Journal didn't identify which issue or issues Apple is concerned about, though it's presumably focused on anything that could have a financial impact, as well as topics the company has touched on before, namely LGBT rights.
Apple is no stranger to the state, of course. The company already has a data center in the state.
In January Apple said it was expecting to announce a new U.S. campus sometime in 2018. The facility should initially concentrate on AppleCare.
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The economy is firing on all cylinders right now. Tim is mistaken.
Let’s stick to facts and mature dialogue.
Following the laws of a country is not “welcoming Chinese overlords”, as the Chinese population does not enjoy the same freedoms afforded Americans. You accuse Apple of censorship in a country where one cannot post anonymously, and provide no supporting evidence. Apple controls customer encryption keys, devices are encrypted at the local level and iMessage is secure, leaving your opinion more of a rant about China.
Read a book...
Please do stick to mature Dialogue, which would include cordially allowing others to speak freely just as you do.
The economy is firing... mostly because of Apple.
and the economy is in a bubble because of stock buybacks.. wages still incredibly low and job market lackluster with crappy part time jobs the reson for the claims of low unemployment by a certain orange faced convict.
But if the changes could have a negative impact on Apple’s ability to attract top-quality people, it’s legitimate for the company to ensure that any changes don’t impair its operational competitiveness.
Apple isn’t going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars building a second home if it isn’t happy with the environment. Like any company, it wants the move to be financially beneficial. It also wants employees to want to work at the location. Apple has not publically commented on its views regarding NC’s circus policitcal environment, but it certainly is entitled to make those views known.
As far as Apple doing business in China goes, I’m not a fan, but Apple’s view is it can effectuate change from within, and putting up with China’s laws is worth the access to the market and manufacturing. Maybe it’s right. Maybe it’s made a mistake. Nonetheless it would be very expensive for Apple to just move from China after the tremendous investments it’s made in the country. Perhaps that is why Apple is proceeding cautiously in NC. It doesn’t want to make an enormous investment that it can’t easily back out of. You have already seen Apple slowly attempt to reduce its reliance on China for manufacturing by assisting its manufacturing partners to open new facilities in other countries.
Elected Officials might be accountable to the people, but Politicians, mostly Republicans, have fought to stack the deck in their favor by redrawing districts to dilute their opponents votes. Further, schools have been stripped of funding, so many people truly aren’t educated enough to understand what they are voting for. We allow the rich to spend billions of dollars to influence elections. Our source of news is owned by the same rich people. The whole trying to rewrite the constitution in NC to undermine a law fully elected governor is just another example that voters really don’t have much power. The people vote for something, the politicians try to undermine that.
The NC Legislature called a special session to rewrite the ballot items. No idea whether the amendments will appear on the ballot or not, just yet.
In any case, calling the President or this having anything to do with national politics is irrelevant.
"community guidelines or learn some respectful decency before making incendiary and leading remarks." There isn't one thing wrong with the words he choose to express himself and you pulling that crap with your reply is BS. After you got through your preamble of acting like some holier than thou parent, you actually countered the comment he made with good to the point remarks. Maybe you should read a book about arrogance or at lest own yours like I do.
Side note - speaking of censorship, did anyone see the story about google planning to launch in China after their previous pull out of china?
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/