> “In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room,” Cook said on stage. “In China you could fill multiple football fields.”
From 2005-2022 it became silly to not switch from any random engineering field to software, you could double your money slinging HTML. Hardware can't really compete with software's margins.
Our almost universal cost inflation also provided a heavy push with that pull- unless you lived in Houston, you kind of needed to if you didn't want to get priced out.
> “In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room,” Cook said on stage. “In China you could fill multiple football fields.”
From 2005-2022 it became silly to not switch from any random engineering field to software, you could double your money slinging HTML. Hardware can't really compete with software's margins.
Our almost universal cost inflation also provided a heavy push with that pull- unless you lived in Houston, you kind of needed to if you didn't want to get priced out.