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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5588113" data-attributes="member: 4682">That's really kind of a non sequitur here. In this case, Steve basically noted that Apple as a corporate citizen happily pays taxes to the city. If the city wants "free" public wifi, the city can use the those taxes to pay for it, in other words, Apple is already paying for whatever the city council builds for the residents. (Steve doesn't live in Cupertino and his doesn't pay his property taxes there). You can't blame the city council folks for asking about it though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The amount of green space added, and pavement and roof tops removed, trees planted, landscape restored, would make about any city council swoon. Fully developed cities getting this much permeable surface offered just doesn't come every day. It makes a huge difference to the heat island effect. Technology comes and goes, but park-like land lasts decades. The cost for the city to tear out these old offices and turn them into this much green parkland would be bankrupting for the city.</blockquote>