Apple:
Cupertino, California and Austin, Texas — Apple today announced a major expansion of its operations in Austin, including an investment of $1 billion to build a new campus in North Austin. The company also announced plans to establish new sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City and expand in cities across the United States including Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years, with the potential for additional expansion elsewhere in the US over time.
Check out this map, showing Apple’s projected US employment by 2022:
And this map, showing Apple’s current US employment numbers/distribution:
The mind reels at this success story. Especially when you think back to that comment (please tweet at me if you can find a link for this) Michael Dell made about buying Apple for couch cushion money.
Kudos to Apple, but don’t the maps above remind of the infamous “fly-over” country in between?
You’re not wrong. Victims of federal neglect from both sides of our political spectrum. Little or no infrastructure improvements. Few reasons for a large corporation to consider expanding into.
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
According to a 2011 TechCrunch article, he claimed that answer was “misconstrued”. He went on to say that he didn’t consider himself a CEO-for-hire, because Dell was his sole focus.
The maps aren’t per capita. They really are just population maps. See https://xkcd.com/1138/. Notice the similarity between the maps there and the first map here.