"Four years ago, a few months after President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, Apple announced an “acceleration” of its U.S. investments, pledging to spend $430 billion and add 20,000 jobs over five years. In January 2018, during Mr. Trump’s first term, the company said that its “direct contribution to the U.S. economy” would be $350 billion over five years and that it planned to create 20,000 jobs over that period.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
Is this just lip service? What happened to those previous investments?
Funny, those are the 2 companies we were speaking to.
Would appreciate some advice/guidance, but I'm at a loss as to how I drop you a message here — doesn't seem DM'ing is possible on HN?
We're a small business looking into EDI with some of our suppliers, but are finding the pricing quite painful for our level of business when talking to some service providers. Which service providers do you see as arcane and costly?
Is this just lip service? What happened to those previous investments?