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Apple already made their choice in second location - Austin, TX, where the cost of living is cheaper and the Vitamin D is plentiful.
by btgeekboy 12y ago
Apple already made their choice in second location - Austin, TX, where the cost of living is cheaper and the Vitamin D is plentiful.
- caycep 12y agoah the old days when you'd dialup into the internet via modem and see what sort of goodies were in ftp.austin.apple.com...
- millstone 12y agoThe Austin location wasn't an engineering office last I checked, though that may have changed. However, Apple does have an engineering office in Paris, and one in Pittsburgh (I think), so they certainly aren't against having multiple engineering locations.
- cfallin 12y agoTheir Austin location is where they do their CPU design (or at least large parts of it), from what I've heard.
- johansch 12y agoThere's a very well-defined interface between CPU and software; the instruction set. Sure, they do need to talk (figure out clever ways to optimize the whole stack), but not every 10 minutes. I think it's quite smart to put all software engineering in one physical location. Physical distance kills cooperation so badly :/.
- Chronic29 12y agoAgreed. I'm surprised they even built an Austin office. Austin is not a major tech hub (nor will it be). Most of the large tech companies don't have engineering offices in Austin either.
- sehr 12y agoUnfortunately, going outside is horrible for about 4 months. Unless you're going to a river that is