Apple to reportedly open R&D center in backyard of BlackBerry's auto division

What? If I rent a house next to a Honda manufacturing building, does that mean I'm going to start building or even designing cars?

dysamoria said:

What? If I rent a house next to a Honda manufacturing building, does that mean I'm going to start building or even designing cars?

No, but you can be sure that a large number of people in the field live near the facility, therefor, one can assume that if you're looking for people with that specific talent set, then you'd want to set up your own facility in the general area.

If Apple is building their own car (or even an after market console system), then it's going to include their own underlying operating system(s) to control it. QNX is the most widely used embedded industrial OS.

Ah, yes. In Blackberry's backyard. This present an opportunity for me to toss out my wild speculation that Apple has plans to "merge" with Blackberry and re-domicile corporate headquarters to Canada. Why? Taxes. Apple would simply join a growing conga line of entities moving from the USA for the same reason. When all we have left is Burger Kings and car washes, Congress might get a clue and fix this. The United States is one of only six industrialized nations (of 34 OECD members) that taxes domestic corporations on a worldwide basis. In the past fifteen years, thirteen OECD countries have moved to a territorial system that exempts all or most of active foreign earned income from domestic taxation.[4] Seems like some countries encourage their corporations to "export", unlike the USA. [4] PricewaterhouseCoopers, Evolution of Territorial Tax Systems in the OECD, prepared for the Technology CEO Council (Apr. 2, 2013), http://www.techceocouncil.org/clientuploads/reports/Report%20on%20Territorial%20Tax%20Systems_20130402b.pdf.

cintos said:

Ah, yes. In Blackberry's backyard. This present an opportunity for me to toss out my wild speculation that Apple has plans to "merge" with Blackberry and re-domicile corporate headquarters to Canada. Why? Taxes. Apple would simply join a growing conga line of entities moving from the USA for the same reason. When all we have left is Burger Kings and car washes, Congress might get a clue and fix this. The United States is one of only six industrialized nations (of 34 OECD members) that taxes domestic corporations on a worldwide basis. In the past fifteen years, thirteen OECD countries have moved to a territorial system that exempts all or most of active foreign earned income from domestic taxation.[4] Seems like some countries encourage their corporations to "export", unlike the USA. [4] PricewaterhouseCoopers, Evolution of Territorial Tax Systems in the OECD, prepared for the Technology CEO Council (Apr. 2, 2013), http://www.techceocouncil.org/clientuploads/reports/Report%20on%20Territorial%20Tax%20Systems_20130402b.pdf.

Assuming your information is correct this is a very powerful insight. Many times we are more worried about left and right politics versus working together to make our country "the best". Many of the solutions are not overnight solutions but are fairly easy to execute if we can get our government to set aside personal agendas and focus on the good of the nation.

techprod1gy said:

cintos said:

Ah, yes. In Blackberry's backyard. This present an opportunity for me to toss out my wild speculation that Apple has plans to "merge" with Blackberry and re-domicile corporate headquarters to Canada. Why? Taxes. Apple would simply join a growing conga line of entities moving from the USA for the same reason. When all we have left is Burger Kings and car washes, Congress might get a clue and fix this. The United States is one of only six industrialized nations (of 34 OECD members) that taxes domestic corporations on a worldwide basis. In the past fifteen years, thirteen OECD countries have moved to a territorial system that exempts all or most of active foreign earned income from domestic taxation.[4] Seems like some countries encourage their corporations to "export", unlike the USA. [4] PricewaterhouseCoopers, Evolution of Territorial Tax Systems in the OECD, prepared for the Technology CEO Council (Apr. 2, 2013), http://www.techceocouncil.org/clientuploads/reports/Report%20on%20Territorial%20Tax%20Systems_20130402b.pdf.

Assuming your information is correct this is a very powerful insight. Many times we are more worried about left and right politics versus working together to make our country "the best". Many of the solutions are not overnight solutions but are fairly easy to execute if we can get our government to set aside personal agendas and focus on the good of the nation.

That's assuming we actually lived in a democracy in the US. Unfortunately, it is only merely the remnants of one. The politicians we vote into office are soon bought and paid for by other interests. Our votes are no longer worth a damn. The almighty dollar has the final say.