California Technology sector vs Texas Technology sector

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

I posted this yesterday in the same thread in the Texas forum and I stand by it:

"I work with many technology companies and in almost every case, the innovative work, the design, and the R&D is done in the Bay Area and the drones that crank out code and the programers are in the subrubs North of Dallas and (to a lesser degree) in the Austin area. Not by chance, thats also the reason for the explosion in Indian population growth in the Dallas area. They import the talent, they dont tend to hire locally.

To be fair the Austin area gets to do some of the cool stuff, but not like the Bay."

[JoninATX]

California for innovation, Texas for manufacturing which is awesome. I rather have manufacturing here in the U.S instead of outsourcing them to China. I'm amazed how these 2 states come together as well. California helps Texas with jobs, and Texas helps California make profit.

[urbanologist]

My first PC was a Texas Instrument T99 4A back when their computers were common at many retail outlets. Anyone remember the Tandy Corporation that was out of Fort Worth? The days of Radio Shack's Tandy computers. I believe Texas Instruments are working on other projects like the semiconducters ranking 3rd largest after Intel and Samsung.

[tmac9wr]

Purely based on manufacturing. Texas is still behind California, Massachusetts, New York, Washington (state), etc. when it comes to tech.