San Jose doesn’t have much of a skyline. The airport was built such that the flight-path for planes takes it directly over downtown, which puts strict height restrictions on buildings. So it has numerous squat and mostly unremarkable 20 story-or-so buildings. So it’ll never have an iconic Google/Adobescraper to make it recognizable like San Francisco’s. To be fair, Oakland’s downtown isn’t all that remarkable either and I don’t think the airport’s to blame for that. 
They go to the viewpoint and immediately turn around. Or, they go to Santa Rosa- the first sign of civilization. 
STFU!
Hehehe.
Huh? Adobe’s main headquarters is actually in downtown San Jose, and is higher than 20 stories. Google is in Mountain View, 40 miles from SF, and since it’s corporate zoned in Mountain View, no building can be larger than three stories tall, which they aren’t.
No it isn’t. It doesn’t look it in the picture, and is listed as 18 floors (West Tower) in the list of tallest buildings in San Jose:
It’s the sixth tallest on that list. The height limitation for downtown buildings in San Jose is about 300 feet. In return, they get one of the more convenient airports.
One thing contributing to San Jose being much larger than it seems is that it’s one of those places that grew through annexation - it sprawls all over the place, and counts many outlying areas inside its limits:
The area inside San Jose’s city limits is about 180 square miles, as opposed to San Francisco’s 47, or Oakland’s 80.
I knew trying to count the windows myself in the picture was a bad idea. 
But the remainder of my point still stands - I don’t get what fiddlesticks is saying about SF having an iconic Google/Adobescraper, since neither is in SF.
I believe fiddlestick means that San Jose won’t have an iconic skyscraper from any major corporation (Google and Adobe being some notable South Bay corps), as opposed to SF which has very tall landmark buildings most notably including the Transamerica Pyramid (built by a major corporation, albeit neither Google nor Adobe).
Ah. I get it now. I belive it was the apostrophe.
Me: It will never have an iconic Google/Adobescraper to make it recognizable like San Francisco’s {Google / Adobe skyscrapers}.
Intent: It will never have an iconic Google/Adobescraper to make it recognizable like San Francisco’s {skyline}.
You guys sorted it out. I realize the Googleplex isn’t in San Jose, but an iconic skyscraper is unlikely to be built anywhere in Mountain View or the surrounding “little” Silicon Valley burgs either. I suppose if the Googleguys ever do get the idea to build a skyscraper monument to themselves, they’ll do it in SF.