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Apple Reveals Fifth Avenue Cube Plans: Larger, Seamless Glass Panes
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I am willing to bet you couldn't even if you tried. $6.6 million in glass buys you some pretty tough stuff I'm sure. For all we know thats Gorilla Glass, giant blown up versions of iPhone faces.
Of course! Someone always gets there before me
Technically you're talking about the wrong property of glass that would withstand a sharp impact. What you're speaking of is compressive strength, and we need tensile strength (pressure required to break).
Not completely putting your calculation aside, it also gives an indication to how thick the glass is. Likely to be a good inch+ thick, and we don't even know what kind of glass type they're using. For all we know it could withstand a car impact.
I really wouldn't want to be the one clearing the snow from up there, 15 panels or 90 panels... I'm scared of heights and it's not like the floor hides anything from underneath...
They are saying its more simple Tell that to the engeneer that designed the glass!! I have a feeling their is nothing simple about it
Cant wait to see it
Tell that to the engeneer that designed the glass!! I have a feeling their is nothing simple about it Cant wait to see it
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It's pretty shiny. I wish they had considered matte as an option.
It's pretty shiny. I wish they had considered matte as an option.
This makes me remember the G4 Cube
I would love a new Cube shaped computer from Apple.
Simple - just buy five Mac Minis and stack them.
I wonder how long it will be until it is made of only 5
Next store will be up in the clouds.
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bohlin cywinski jackson keep pushing the envelope. i wonder how thick these panes are and what sort of support structure goes into keeping them (especially the roof bits) from falling down.
If you think as if it were part of an advertising campaign, then $6,000,000 is not a lot of money.
It was mentioned that the cube is the most photographed tourist attraction in NY! The amount of PR mileage they will get out of this will could well be a large multiple of the cost in free publicity.
(Whether spending $6,000,000 on a store, no matter what it's return, is reasonable or obscene [when it could go to other purposes] is a question for another thread.)
But as a marketing investment - it don't seem to me like that much money.
If you think as if it were part of an advertising campaign, then $6,000,000 is not a lot of money.
It was mentioned that the cube is the most photographed tourist attraction in NY! The amount of PR mileage they will get out of this will could well be a large multiple of the cost in free publicity.
(Whether spending $6,000,000 on a store, no matter what it's return, is reasonable or obscene [when it could go to other purposes] is a question for another thread.)
But as a marketing investment - it don't seem to me like that much money.
Nice to see someone with a broader view on things and not just some knee jerk reaction poster going "zomg they have too mmuch moneyz blablablah"
Yes reality sets in even if you want fantasy. I love to see how they would have one massive glass panel hold up the walls and ceiling.
What ever they do, still better than what most other companies are doing without all that money. Nice to not pay out an dividend which allows them to spend it on other things.
All the tourists that snapped Cube 1 will return for Cube 2.0. And maybe pick up a bauble in the gift shop below
Heated glass would fix that.
I was thinking Stonehenge-thick. Glassshenge.
+1 We have a winner!
Oops. Forgot the door?
That would be a dome. Like an giant inverted fruit bowl with a single apple inside.
A superbowl!
Waa, waa, waaaaaaa. (game losing sound)
I wonder how long it will be until it is made of only 5
I wonder how long it will be until it is made of only 1
I would seriously bet that there were some structural, or upkeep related issues with the old glass system. Or at the least "potential" issues that Apple felt it would be best to make the move that they are making.
I doubt this is 100 percent about aesthetics.