Steve Jobs hisself addressed just some of the benefits Apple’s very presence in Cupertino brings to the city residents, starting at 11:12 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf6C5Uc3ix4
Seriously, those benefits are HUGE already!
You can see Mayor Barry Chang as a member of this meeting at 15:15 into this same clip. Steve Jobs died almost exactly 4 months later from the pancreatic cancer that was obviously affecting him right then, he defined the visual for gaunt!