Apple Pledges More Than $400 Million Towards Affordable Housing Initiatives in California This Year

[chucker23n1]

You're looking at total population. I'm talking about people moving to CA and those moving away.
The stats are not wrong... more are moving away from CA than moving to CA.
With close to 40 million people in CA, population growth by births is expected.
2010 to 2019 numbers fall in line with that.

How is it relevant whether population is increasing due to moves, or due to births, with respect to whether more housing is required?

 

[rjohnstone]

How is it relevant whether population is increasing due to moves, or due to births, with respect to whether more housing is required?

Babies ain't paying taxes and buying new houses.
New families moving to CA are doing both.

 

[smallcoffee]

So Disney shouldn't create neighborhoods with roads, or medical companies shouldn't be looking at ways to fight opioid addiction, or providing our troops with the latest in technology to fight wars?

They should if they feel like it, but the ultimate responsibility rests on the government.

(Never heard of a company declaring war.)

Whether or not they declare war is kind of immaterial, their actions are what matters (i.e. Dutch East India Company, etc.)

We should be open to all forms of help.

I agree (to an extent)

Government and society are quite different entities. Be careful what you want government to have control over. Governments are best when they simply govern.

Not getting into this here because we aren't starting from a base point to discuss.

And? So because someone or some corporation (a group of people) aren't beholden to the tax payer they can't offer assistance?

Depends. My larger point here is that when the government fails or seems to be failing, we should be looking to restore the government and its proper function, not hoping that Apple builds new roads for us.

 

[NokX]

Um, of course they can. And they do.

It's just better when an elected body does it.

Why better? If a company can do it and relieve the tax burden on the citizens, is that not better?

 

[chucker23n1]

Why better?

Because they're an elected body. They are at least partially interested in getting re-elected.

A corporation is interested in good PR, but typically more interested in just making money.

If a company can do it and relieve the tax burden on the citizens, is that not better?

Companies aren't charities. Just because your tax dollars don't pay for it doesn't mean they do it purely out of good heart.

Apple in particular does it in part because of its values, sure, but also in part because it helps mitigate the employee attrition problem. If employees can't afford to live near campus, they'll move to a cheaper place and work for a competitor.

 

[DeputyFife]

You don’t think that Apple has Proto types of all those things? The foldable iPhone has been worked on for years, and they haven’t released it yet. Maybe because, much like the rest of the industry, they’ve realize that foldable phones are not exactly a very good market to go into at this very moment? Look at the galaxy fold, the thing was a huge failure, that was overpriced and not durable at all.
Maybe Apple would go into the foldable market, when it’s mature and ready for their product.
As for a foldable iPad, that exists. It’s called the MacBook. Or an iPad Pro with magic keyboard.
A redesigned iMac is supposed to be coming out later this year.
And as for AR glasses... have you been on the Internet? These things are in development, and Apple has been dumping tons and tons of money into AR advances. Just cause it doesn’t come out when you say it should, doesn’t mean that it’s not being worked on.
The iPad began development around 2003-2004, and wasn’t released until 2010.

the point is a company with a budget the size of a small industrialized nation could produce products in a more timely manner if it wasted less energy.Have you forgotten apple’s collapse after Steve Jobs left? Where endless product iterations that were overpriced allowed the market to stagnate and innovation to decline until his return? Of course I read the internet. I wouldn’t be having this geek conversation with you an a rumors blog if I didn’t now would I?...