“Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers [sic], is likely to visit Bangalore in the first week of April. He is expected to launch Apple’s R&D center and technical support facility for its products here. The company plans to hire 3000 people in India by 2007,” Priya Padmanabhan reports for Cyber India Online.
“Jobs has special affinity to India. He had spent four years in the 1970’s as a ‘hippie spiritual tourist’ visiting holy places in the country,” Padmanabhan reports.
Full article here.
[Attribution; SpyMac.]
[UPDATE: 11:30am EST: Revised headline. We couldn’t resist. Thanks to Dave H.]
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Fantastic, yet another outsourcing, oh wait “offshoring”, of jobs. (no pun intended)
This is what Appple meant by “sending Jobs to Bangalore”. Looks like we were all wrong.
May I should go easy on the pppppppp key.
Or even Maybe
Oh, never mind. TAXI!!!
Probably some good places to eat for a vegan.
What!!!! sending jobs to india to Bang a whore!
thats so far to go.
To Dave H:
HAL: Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?
HAL: Look Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
MW: indeed
ampar is he full vegan? i didnt know, i thought he was just vegetarian.
Steve Jobs missing years in India exploring eastern religion. Yes, I am now wearing my cloak and burning my incense. It’s all true. Apple is more than a computer company.
america could use those 3000 jobs!
Unions are killing this country
btw – what the hell happened to the MDN take? I want the MDN take!!!!
Ed.
Is not unions it is healt care costs and people’s poor habits that are kiiling this country
Ed,
As damaging as some unions may have been to general industry in America, in this case the reality is simply that India is cranking out more and better computer related engineers, software and electrical engineers. If America wants those jobs, American parents better work closer with their children and schools to better educate our next generation.
Apple. Stop turning into a typical box maker please.
All you liberals – stop the double standard.
There is nothing wrong with outsourcing – Indians are better than Americans at tech – pls admit just look at Silicon valley just as Americans are beter at a whole host of opther things.
For a superpower you seem to whine quite a bit when you are not as good at some thinsg
Or Americans should get used to making 3rd world salaries. Ahhh yes, the beauty of globalization.
“Unions are killing this country”
And what would you call moving vast numbers of technical, white collar and blue collar jobs over seas where the total labor cost for a worker is a fraction of the cost of an American worker.
The American worker is then left with some retail job paying $9.00 an hour and not being able to afford the product he once made here in America. Wait until your turn comes. For it will come for all of us eventually.
“For a superpower you seem to whine quite a bit when you are not as good at some thinsg”
iCritic– I just read about a study last week that indicated that the most successful economies on the planet share a similar trait: they all think they are failing and not good enough. I accept our concern as a good sign that we have the desire (if not always the skill sets) to do better. Sometimes that manifests itself as whining.
I too would like to see the jobs stay here in the US, but perhaps these technical positions are in addition to what Apple has now…don’t forget the R&D facility too.
But I really do hate to see more and more jobs leave the US.
There are a lot of talented people in India and everyone deserves a chance to improve their lives and make a decent living.
It’s not the Unions that are killing jobs here in the US, but the Union’s leadership. The rank and file union members are just hard working people trying to get by and have a few nice things.
Ampar, your post was the best laugh I’ve had all day!
Mr. Jobs had better watch out for the Mangalores when he ehads to Bangalore.
Leeloominai apta sabat!
Early April Fool’s story!!!!
“All you liberals – stop the double standard.”
How come whenever someone criticizes a company that suddenly its “liberal whining”. This notion of liberals being at fault for everything has got to stop.
And I also find it funny your rash sterotyping of Indians being better than Americans at tech. Thats really funny. First of all therre are Indians that are americans, does that comment exclude them.
Funny you try to position yourself as some sort of visionary then label yourself with a misplaced sterotype.
Apple Computer is not an American Company, it is an International Company Headquartered in the US. The ‘Made in California’ tag went way a long time ago. Most of Apple’s Software Discs are made in Canada, most of it’s hardware in Taiwan and Red China (yes, I called it what it is– repressive, Communist China), the Chief Industrial Designer is a Subject of the British Crown, the largest individual shareholder is Arab Royalty, etc. Get over it.
Some of the world’s best scientists and engineers are from India or are descendant from that Culture. Apple can tap into that huge pool of talent, they can live like kings on even a modest salary and having such a large presence could help increase Apple’s fortunes in a very important market.
Anybody who has bothered to notice the last 25-30 years has seen a significant number of seats in our engineering, science and mathematics departments full of Indians, among others, while American kids were all wanting to major in Business, Education or the Arts. Most American kids are either too ill-prepared or too lazy to do the work necessary for a science or engineering degree.
You reap what you sow, people. It’s true for societies and cultures as much as for people. While you were watching the (un)Real World on MTV and playing Tony Hawk, the world has shifted and America is not in a good position. High labor costs, poor work ethic, poorly educated in Math and the Sciences, debt-ridden and full of other baggage.
Internally you are being eaten alive from below with illegal immigration and from above by better educated and better motivated legal immigrants. Instead of bitch*ng about things, maybe you should have spent less time on video games and TV and more time on your homework. Sometimes the truth hurts, but the world you have been sold is as mythical as the FPS games you play.
To carlo: Actually, if I remember correctly Jobs is pescetarian. Which means, of course, that he’ll only eat someone born in late February up to mid-March. It’s all about having standards, people.
And you’re welcome, MacDoctor.
Switching subjects…
Seems to me we can take this as Validation there will NOT be a special event in early April to celebrate Apple’s 30th Anniversay.
Late March, maybe. My gut feel is there will not be an event at all. I hope I’m wrong.
Peace.