Maybe for delivering the kit that's going into it? With a shed of that size there will be a hell of a lot of equipment which you don't really want to unload outside and then move in. Might as well have more direct access. I would guess the costs of adding a few extra doors is nothing compared to the overall costs of the investment.
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Maybe for delivering the kit that's going into it? With a shed of that size there will be a hell of a lot of equipment which you don't really want to unload outside and then move in. Might as well have more direct access. I would guess the costs of adding a few extra doors is nothing compared to the overall costs of the investment.
Google's "size" means nothing when they can make their search engine the default search on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Safari (Mac/PC). They'd get about 15-20% of the market. It'd have to be user friendly, useful, well designed, and still load fast. It'd fit well with their new advertising division.
I don't think they'd beat Google, but it'd probably do better than Bing.
Where do you get your 15-20% from?
Safari has currently only got about 4.5% of the browser market share. How many iPads do you think they are going to sell?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010...le-chrome-at-5-ie-and-firefox-still-dominate/
Are you talking about this part? If so that appears to just be part of the building that doesn't have a roof on it yet.
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Maybe they're keeping the costs down with a dozen or so of these Bloom boxes.
Lovin' every minute of it.
Where do you get your 15-20% from?
Safari has currently only got about 4.5% of the browser market share. How many iPads do you think they are going to sell?
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http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010...le-chrome-at-5-ie-and-firefox-still-dominate/
Yeah, but he also mentioned the mobile devices. You only show desktop.
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When will it be complete? I really think that Apple is going to make a search engine. Feel free to call me crazy, but that's what I think.
I know Apple is famous for contradicting itself later, but they've said before that they have no intention of making a search engine. And I fully agree with them. There was A LOT of search engines out there, and while only a handful of them are actually really good, that's still a lot of competition. The market is flooded with search engines; Apple knows this. Plus, they have a $100 million business deal with Google (arguably the best search engine out there) already. While $100 million is lunch money for Apple, it would cost them billions to construct, develop, and maintain their own search engine.
I wonder what they're planning on doing with this. Just "Cloud computing" (am I the only one who hates that name?) seems like a bit of a stretch unless they roll out something really big/new for MobileMe or some other new service.
You're crazy.
Google has a larger market share in search than Apple does in MP3 players. How are all those iPod killers doing?
What was Apple's marketshare in MP3 players before the iPod?
What was Apple's marketshare before the iPhone?
Yeah, that's what I thought. Like I said, Apple doesn't have to dominate search, but they can have all their devices set to their default search. That's STILL damn good.
Stop thinking like Microsoft lol.
Just how the market was FLOODED with MP3 players and cell phones. Think outside the box.
Doesn't look like the roof supports Flash.
I just watched the HTML5 version of the video, it's so nice to be able to play a YouTube video without melting the paint off the walls in the room.
Not to mention that mobile devices account for less than 2% of browsing, according to http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200901-201002
According to StatCounter, In the US, Safari has a 32% mobile share and a 9.5% overall market share. Getting 10% of any market isn't bad, but I agree with above posters that I don't think Apple's getting into the search engine business.
Building that HUGE facility just for MobileMe? I think not. MobileMe users is a TINY market. MobileMe isn't even all that great. I use it, but I could honestly do without it.
It'd be for iTunes before MobileMe. If they need a facility to support MobileMe, a couple of jumpdrives would suffice lol.
It'd be for iTunes before MobileMe. If they need a facility to support MobileMe, a couple of jumpdrives would suffice lol.
What was Apple's marketshare in MP3 players before the iPod?
What was Apple's marketshare before the iPhone?
Yeah, that's what I thought. Like I said, Apple doesn't have to dominate search, but they can have all their devices set to their default search. That's STILL damn good.
Stop thinking like Microsoft lol.
In both instances, Apple entered a very fragmented market with lots of players. Google has close to 70% market share in the US and even higher worldwide. Why would Apple want to do this?
And before anyone says because Jobs is pissed at Schmidt for competing with Apple after sitting on its board, that's why there is a board of directors, to keep Jobs from doing crazy ****.
What about the Lala.com purchase. If 150 million people start streaming their music from an Apple service based off this purchase I'd bet it'd take quite a bit of storage/bandwidth. If they expand it to video then this type of facility would be necessary.
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It isn't uncommon for a building that size to have a large shipping bay, they may even have another on the far end. Aside from the initial equipment coming in, just supporting a massive facility (even a data center) requires a big shipping/receiving department.
When will it be complete? I really think that Apple is going to make a search engine. Feel free to call me crazy, but that's what I think.
...or buy one. Many of Apples IP's were actually from purchases, e.g. multi-touch.
To have any success in cloud computing you should have several data centers around the world. Honestly, this doesn't look cloud computing. Centralized file serving on large scale but even that is a huge stretch from one location when trying to serve world wide customer base. Compare this with Google and you know what I'm talking about.
The following is a map of Google data centers around the world. I know for a fact that these maps lack some of their newest and biggest centers.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/
The following is a map of Google data centers around the world. I know for a fact that these maps lack some of their newest and biggest centers.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/
When will it be complete? I really think that Apple is going to make a search engine. Feel free to call me crazy, but that's what I think.
Don't think so or else Google's Eric would have left the board of directors a while ago. This building was agreed upon before he left the chair. I am pretty sure he would have said something against it and left angry, but then again they could have told him it was a meetings on the iPhone and he would have had to sit out in the first place.
Some of you guys need to stop acting like everything Apple does is the biggest, baddest, most impressive thing ever. There are larger datacentres in the world.