Hi Daniel, Yes. I also enjoyed the chair of the council asking Steve Jobs to open an Apple Store in Cupertino. Unfortunately for the chairman who as an obvious Apple supporter, Jobs replied it was unlikely as Cupertino did not have enough population to provide the customer traffic to support the store.
Cheers, Carlo On 2011-06-09, at 01:20, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > > I liked the comment on that about taxes,... (from MacRumours) > <http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/08/steve-jobs-pitches-cupertino-on-new-app > le-campus/> > > /quote > One of the city councilors asked what the citizens of Cupertino would get > from the new campus, and in particular brought up a free Wi-Fi network, like > Google offers in Mountain View. Steve responded that Apple was the largest > taxpayer in Cupertino and he felt that the tax benefits to having a company > like Apple in Cupertino was benefit enough and the city should be providing > a service like that. > > "If we can get out of paying taxes, we would be glad to provide free Wi-Fi." > /end quote > > I wonder if I can use that same logic with my council. If I offer free WiFi > can I not pay my rates??? :) hehehe. > > Will be interesting as they put it as it will all be round glass everywhere, > no corners. :) At least they have it down pat now as they say, from the work > in the stores.... > > Kind regards > Daniel > > > On 9/6/11 1:15 AM, "cm" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Steve Jobs has been busy this week. The day before his WWDC keynote address >> he >> made a presentation to the Cupertino City Council about a proposed new campus >> that will be completed by 2015 if given approval. Apple bought the land from >> Hewlett Packard and plans to build an enormous donut shaped building that is >> only four stories high but that houses 12,000 employees. >> >> If you have not overdosed on Jobs watching during the keynote, the video clip >> referenced in the link below is well worth watching. >> >> http://www.itworld.com/business/172227/apple-plans-new-spaceship-campus >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > Phone: 0414 795 960 > Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> > Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Macintosh** > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
