Apple buys out $1bn data center squatters Who says the US housing market is dead? One Northern Carolina couple just received $1.7m for their one-story home on less than a acre of land that they bought for $6,000. The buyer? Steve Jobs & Co. It seems that Donnie and Kathy Fulbright's home was on land that Apple needed for its $1bn data center, according to a report …
Windows XP was the peak, Longhorn took too long, Vista was a disgrace, no way in hell am I going shell out cash for Win7. Microsoft are doomed, they where doomed as soon as Monkey boy took over. Replace the head of an engineering company with a bean counter, and its always the same story, steady decline.
Now how do I convince Steve to build a data centre in my neck of the woods?
And Windows 7 is well worth shelling out cash for. Microsoft is still a very successful company, they just try entering a lot of new markets and often fail (e.g. Zune). But sometimes they succeed (e.g. XBox 360). But I think predicting their demise is a little premature. I for one could not recommend any other OS to my enterprise clients.
I suspect that it's more like "what's good for them" and any perceived "niceness" in there is purely illusory.
I'd be willing to bet that someone took a guess at how long legal proceedings might run for, multiplied that by the amount it's costing 'em every day this thing isn't being built, added on a ballpark figure for legal costs and came up with a figure somewhere seriously north of 1.7 million.
Or, in other words, paying 'em to f*** off quickly is pure, venal self-interest on Apple's part and the world moves along unchanged.
Lived there in the early seventies and it was nice back then. Now though the hippies, gays, greens,and goobers run the state - can you imagine the lynch mob that would show up at His iHoliness's's's's's's house if he tried that?
It would seriously freak all of those groups out. Apple would get a shock they know it, thus the $1.7.
hmmmm... no peace sign.......
The reality doesn't really match the news reports; San Jose, San Diego, and the Central Valley are still some of the most conservative in the nation. SF and Berkeley are still the only real liberal's playgrounds; the rest of the state is more dead set on keeping taxes low and getting through another year than any ideology, like most of the country.
The Supreme Court decided to leave the eminent domain issue open ended and turfed it to the states to draft the limits. The Supremes said that you could use eminent domain in order to raise the tax value IF the state legislature allows it. The ruling does not prevent a state legislature from writing far more restrictive rules. It is a state by state affair and a pr minefield no matter where you are.
I think apple is a cult as much as the next irrational computer geek but the way this article is written you would think that apple is just steve jobs.
He does hold the big stick that everyone seems to be beaten with there, but maybe one of the other monkeys has a plan that needs a data centre.... just a thought.
This media build up around steve jobs over the last few years at least means that when he leaves apple most people will think that they have turned the lights out and stopped trading.
(lowercase delibierate)
"A mere decade or so ago, who would have thought that by 2010 it would be Microsoft reeling and Apple rocking?
We didn't. And admit it, neither did you."
You're right, a decade ago I wasn't thinking about Apple.
I strongly suspected that it would take the morons more than a decade to give up using Microshite software and hey - they still haven't!
<-- Gates, even though he isn't in charge any more and has turned into quite a charitable fellow.
Fox News might have a point......
--- lying here in a hospital bed with the tv changer stuck on Fox.....
intolerable cruelty........
sigh... I have 2 minutes to the next morphine hit..... got one of those PAP (idk...patient activated pump?) hooked up to the iv........ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
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