I agree on the jobs and say that in the post. The only thing I’d say is how many of those jobs are Irish people as a percentage? Either way you are right though any job is worth it and the money all flows through here. You are different though because you get iPads sent to you from USA, new phones etc etc. The man in the street has to wait 3 months and then go and queue at 4 in the morning. I just think it’s totally dispectful to leave us to last on most of these things. They could at leats have the decency to release stuff at same time as UK.

I would be interested also in some facts and figures on local hire ratios for the larger tech based businesses v external talent. Possibly it’s the corp tax/gov subsidies and general locality plus dublin’s seems like quite a cool place. The talent pool that will grow in Dublin will possibly create a nice thriving ecosystem for new startups an alternative to London and attract/produce a new generation of Irish/Welsh/Scottish/English startups.

the “man on the street” has the same chance as me Niall
I just pay extra to be an early adopter, they dont come from the US for free

So let’s not kid ourselves. Tech companies locate in Ireland for one reason and one reason only. Tax breaks. Nothing else.

I mean with most of the big name tech companies in Ireland, look at the style of jobs that they’re providing in Ireland – usually clerical or customer service positions. very few of them are doing development work or technical work of any description and yet we’re constantly being told that theses are all “Smart Economy” jobs.

I’d have to side with Niall really. He’s damn right. Whether people are aware of it or not, many of these companies are actively going out of their way to cherry pick their business model to put certain low importance or low value aspects of their operations in Ireland, purely so they can justify rolling hundreds of millions in tax write offs through our system.

I can understand the perspective of Ireland being a tiny market for many of these companies, however Ireland has always topped the European charts when it comes to early adoption of services and products so in terms of a text market that can be easily monitored and observed Ireland provides a great location in terms of value for money.

So wouldn’t it serve these companies well to involve themselves in the community a bit more through their products? Recently I had to physically drive a client to their site to prove to them that Apple have a plant with over 1000 employees in Cork. Look at the massive sales volume they’ve experienced and yet no Apple Store in the Republic!

rant over…..

DC

Well it’s the US first and then everyone else way behind, isn’t it, whether Ireland, UK or Bhutan. All the other countries are just different levels of second-class. Here in Canada you could argue it’s even worse, as we get daily US advertising on TV and in magazines taunting us with earlier roll-outs and cheaper rates from just over the border!

Hey Niall

I think you answered your own question when you wrote “These companies are never going to help their bottom line by releasing products here”.

I agree it would be nice to get things first or shortly after but these companies don’t make billions every year by caring about the feelings of people in countries that don’t affect their profit margins!