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martyb
on Thursday June 27 2019, @09:41AM
from the what's-wrong-with-the-east-coast? dept.
from the what's-wrong-with-the-east-coast? dept.
Apple plans to add 2,000 software and hardware jobs in Seattle within the next five years, starting with 200 additional jobs this year, company officials said Monday at a news conference with Mayor Jenny Durkan.
The company is leasing all the office space at 333 Dexter Ave. N., a complex of two 12-story buildings nearing completion at Dexter Avenue and Thomas Street, one block west of the core Amazon campus in South Lake Union.
The office space could accommodate more than 3,000 employees.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @02:00PM (2 children)
I'm happy to see Apple finally expand in Seattle. There have been rumors and more solid stories about Apple opening an office, but until now, nothing substantial.
That said, they are moving into the most crowded tech area of Seattle. The commute stinks. Seattle is forcing companies to restrict parking and charge daily rates ($16/day) for what parking is allowed. Seattle, like some other cities, is at war with cars and is trying to reduce their usage with very strong measures. And then the homeless crisis and drug crisis... While there is tech talent in Seattle, why would Apple move to the hardest place, when just across the lake there is Bellevue who is more business friendly, has more affordable housing closer by, doesn't have a homeless crisis and isn't agains cars? Amazon seems to see the future; they recently leased or purchased 4 large buildings in Bellevue, and stopped construction of buildings in Seattle.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @02:15PM (1 child)
For Seattle read "metropolitan Democrat strongholds". Apple is after poaching Redmond employees since there's too much competition in Silly Valley.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 27 2019, @04:20PM
That's: Silly CON Valley
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by CZB on Thursday June 27 2019, @02:52PM (3 children)
If Apple builds on-site housing for all employees, auxiliary staff, service workers and independent contractors the new office might not be a disaster for the local housing and roads.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @03:46PM (1 child)
There's a new suburb being built nearby called iSeattle... with iApartments, iHops, iHighways, and iToilets.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 28 2019, @12:31AM
Which will all soon have to be spun-off when Trump trustbusts the liberal scum tech industry and all the tech weenies start fleeing to Idaho and Texas, propagating their cancerous politics.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday June 27 2019, @04:22PM
I hope that Apple's on-site employee housing will be equipped with iSuicide prevention nets attached to the building.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @05:07PM
If they're moving to Seattle to enjoy the local tech talent there, aren't all their new OS guys going to be ex-microsoft guys?
There goes their OS. (Their new webpages should be snappy though!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @02:12AM (2 children)
No ... no, no, no...
It's already a shithole. The housing is overpriced, the streets are overcrowded, and even working for Apple there, for serious cash, doesn't sound like a good scene. Working for anybody else in the area is going to get harder, more inconvenient, and generate more resentment from the hang-the-techbros ragemob.
Can we please just abscess the bay area, Seattle and Portland into a new state of disconnected enclaves? We'll call it the People's Democratic Republic of Techistan. Hell, to make them feel loved we'll carve off LA as well.
There is nothing good about this. It would have made more sense in freaking Lawrence, Kansas. At least there Apple would have had the rationale of lower cost of living and land.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @02:23PM (1 child)
This is right up the street from me. It's easy to live in seattle when you get seattle pay. When I was an entry level netadmin in bumfuck nowhere I was barely able to make ends meet and I was often the smartest person in the room at any given meeting. Apple doesn't want to move to kansas because kansas has an awful school system.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 29 2019, @12:58AM
You know what? You're right. You've convinced me.
Apple should move their whole damn operation right into Seattle. Load up a train, ride it up to King Street Station, unload and get busy.
However, I stand by my request for secession for the west coast cities. Please and thanks.