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You were doing good until you included ‘Apple needs to be broken up.’ Why? Too successful?  EU jealousy? Many buy Apple products because of the security. By not having the hardware, OS, and content groups under 1 leadership, working together to make sure security is a priority, you risk that. 

tedz98 said:

The devil is in the details. What the actual regulations will be is yet to be seen. It’s a slippery slope of further government regulation of private industry. If there are going to be new regulations, I would like to see regulations that require the big tech companies to produce a concise and simple to understand statement of how customer data is used, sold, or shared. As well is simplified terms of service that don’t require a law degree to interpret. The fundamental issue that is forcing the EU to create these regulations is the monopolistic behavior of the tech giants. Their market power allows them to create one-sided policies and strategies that favor the company - for which they can’t be blamed as that is the natural tendency of a monopoly. Ultimately Google and Facebook need to be broken up. Possibly Apple too. Twitter needs some sort of shake up that gets them out of the content control role they’ve grown in to.

Did you just snap out of a coma?  Since March we in Tech have proved Work From Home works fine. I was not surprised - been running tech teams in 7 world time zones for many years. 

The US will always lead; we’re the risk takers,  the problem solvers, the innovators; we’re the country where your family name  doesn’t limit your life expectations. 

jcc said:

Tech moving away will spell the end of America’s dominance in the tech sphere as the previous concentration afforded an environment that was conducive to new ideas and the people that create it.

Ditto - embarrassed to tell people I still live here. But not optimistic the msg will get through to the pols - their egos are too big and they’ll be too busy gaslighting (‘Larry Ellison is a <insert word that means bad person, starts with an R, here>’) to consider their policies are the reason. 

sflocal said:

And so the exodus continues.  Musk left to Texas, and probably eventually his manufacturing and aerospace, now Oracle.  All those professional, high-paying jobs will now flee, along with all the employee income taxes, disposable income, etc.. and all that money now going into the Texas economy.

I'm ashamed to be a Californian.  Our progressive, socialistic government has made doing business in California some of the most hostile in the U.S.  

I hope more companies leave California to send a message to our legislatures that their out-of-control spending, socialism, and arrogant attitude will turn this state into a has-been.  It's already getting there.

Good for Texas.  They're doing all the right things, helping to foster business and growth, and best of all, their state government stays out of the way.  California was once like that.  No more.