2 ms·

Simply tell the city, you need to permit enough housing for all of the people working in this huge new office complex, or Apple will leave Cupertino. Apple is s

Simply tell the city, you need to permit enough housing for all of the people working in this huge new office complex, or Apple will leave Cupertino. Apple is such a large company that they pay a major chunk of Cupertino's tax revenues, so they would have a lot of negotiating leverage.

rgovostes 9y ago
Have you been to Cupertino? I wouldn't want to live there. And if I worked there, I wouldn't want to live within 1 mile of my office. Even if there were housing, many people would prefer to live elsewhere. Apple also cannot threaten to leave the city every time they want something. How dystopian it would be to have a multibillion dollar company extorting City Hall like that.
- saagarjha 9y ago
  > Have you been to Cupertino? I wouldn't want to live there. Hey now, what's wrong with Cupertino :(
bronson 9y ago
Apple threaten to leave their new spaceship? A comically obvious bluff?
- apsec112 9y ago
  Obviously, this is a decision they would have made before they built the spaceship, not afterwards.
  - bronson 9y ago
    Apple threaten to leave One Infinite Loop? "Obviously" they would have to make this decision in the early 90s?
dominotw 9y ago
I guess in this case we are fine big corporations telling city govt what to do.