GeorgeBMac said:

It seems Apple will need to either catch up or give up.   Foldable phones are coming.   Or, maybe they are here already.  Regardless, in either case, they are not going away.

soon it will be facing pressure to blur the line between phone and tablet.

But, that can't last.   Just as soft moving water wears away the hardest rock, moving technology wears away the hardest purity tests.
Perhaps the analogy is Steve Jobs insistence on keeping the iPhone small -- because he thought of his iPhone primarily as a phone rather than a computer. But the world of technology didn't wait.   It moved on to large screened phones and Apple, with the iPhone 6, was forced to surrender and join the wave...

sflocal said:

hmlongco said:

sflocal said:

...and best of all, their state government stays out of the way.

I assume that's code for letting corporations and business do whatever the hell they want?

My take on it is simply that office space, cost-of-living and housing has grown so high in the Bay area that moving elsewhere seems like a good deal. 

Unfortunately for your rant, in all likelihood the net result of all of those people moving to Austin is that AUSTIN real estate prices are going to start skyrocketing, and that all of those transplanted people are going to want the same level of services they once had in CA.

The same exact thing happened to Colorado and Denver and Boulder a couple of decades ago when the tech boom hit with people moving there from CA... with the same exact result. Housing and COL went up, and the state started going Blue...

California has the highest income tax rate in the U.S.  What services will Texans want that California "had"?  I see California raking in billions of dollars each year, yet our roads and bridges are in shambles, our public schools are broke, yet government workers continue to rake in their high salaries, gold-plated benefits, while telling everyone to stay home, killing businesses while Newsom dines at French Laundry.

Businesses provide jobs.  Jobs fuel the economy.  How California treats businesses versus Texas is a very different thing.  People are moving to Texas too so they must be doing something right.

Yes, people will move to Texas and other businesses and soon causing housing prices to go up.  I'll bet Texas will be in a better position to deal with a good problem to have than anything remotely close to what California has done.

Yeah, I have no problem my rant.