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Apple Campus 2 Construction Progress Highlighted in New Holiday Update

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As 2016 winds down, Matthew Roberts has uploaded one last update on Apple Campus 2 for the year, providing fans with the usual coverage on progress made to the central spaceship building and the land surrounding it. The video, representing the work on Apple Campus 2 for December 2016, was taken yesterday on Christmas.

Solar panel installation is believed to be 65 percent complete now, up from 60 percent in November and 50 percent in October. Elsewhere on the main building, the atrium of Apple Campus 2 has seen "major progress" in the last month. A month ago, the atrium was just receiving its glass installation.


Walkways are also sprouting up around the campus, making it possible for employees to get to and from the various sites Apple is building. Among the walkways, the landscaping on the campus has seen its usual iterative progress, and now "many different types of trees" are noted to have been planted in December.

A few other buildings nearby have made notable progress as well, including the reception area for the underground auditorium, and some work being done on the local R&D center is said to be mostly centered inside of the building. Recent rains have left most of the campus in mud, and it's clear that construction will continue well into 2017.

Previous Coverage: New Time-Lapse Video Shows Past 6 Months of Work on Apple Campus 2 in Just 4 Minutes

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smacrumon said:
This has Steve Jobs all over it. I'm glad it's nearly complete. Can wait to walk into it and take it all in.
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Are you working for Apple? If not, where did you get the info that it will be open for the public? I think I read somewhere that the Campus 2 is only accessible for Apple employees and not for the general public :-(
 
Maybe the lights in the building won't last that long......,,"up to 10 hrs?"

Heh

On serious note: hope they fill the building with Mac pros and other neglected children like Mac minis and iMacs.
 
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m.x said:
Are you working for Apple? If not, where did you get the info that it will be open for the public? I think I read somewhere that the Campus 2 is only accessible for Apple employees and not for the general public :-(
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I'm sure Apple will do a video open house once things settle down a bit. Given the amount of interest they would be fools not to.
 
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Its like looking where our money went to over all these years.

I hope they at least let visit somewhere.....it would be such a shame waste all this money and not let people see it.

I mean, it is a new tourist spot. Maybe an Apple Store for visitors?
 
pat500000 said:
Maybe the lights in the building won't last that long......,,"up to 10 hrs?"

Heh

On serious note: hope they fill the building with Mac pros and other neglected children like Mac minis and iMacs.
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One can only hope so! Thus they would realize the error of their ways in NOT updating a product for 1007 days and seeing the strain in performance affecting results.
 
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I wonder if there's an indoor transit system/train circling the mothership?

I'm given to understand that people at Apple are super fit (seriously) and walking is part of the design, but it would still make sense for a variety of reasons.


Would also be cool if the mothership's exterior lights mimicked the breathing sleep light from the old PowerBooks/MacBooks at night. Or at least on the Macintosh Anniversaries.
 
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smacrumon said:
This has Steve Jobs all over it. I'm glad it's nearly complete. Can wait to walk into it and take it all in.
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Exactly what I was thinking. It is like a time capsule. Apple was a completely different company when this thing started.
 
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smacrumon said:
This has Steve Jobs all over it. I'm glad it's nearly complete. Can wait to walk into it and take it all in.
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ksnell said:
Exactly what I was thinking. It is like a time capsule. Apple was a completely different company when this thing started.
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Truly it was. A company driven by a man obsessed with making sure his products lit up peoples' lives and helped them communicate with each other.
Speaking of "time capsule", Steve filmed a message for the staff to played at the opening of the facility. I'm hoping that somehow makes its way to the public.
 
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Sill said:
Truly it was. A company driven by a man obsessed with making sure his products lit up peoples' lives and helped them communicate with each other.
Speaking of "time capsule", Steve filmed a message for the staff to played at the opening of the facility. I'm hoping that somehow makes its way to the public.
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Wow that is awesome.
 
smacrumon said:
This has Steve Jobs all over it. I'm glad it's nearly complete. Can wait to walk into it and take it all in.
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I wouldn't rely heavily on that assumption, being You won't be able to walk in there at all for that matter. Making a trip from the UK to the new Apple Campus, I think you will be disappointed you won't be permitted if your a non-employee. And guaranteed they will have security heavily influenced in a new building like this.
 
Breaking Good said:
The Apple Campus 2 epitomizes the company's hubris.
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Anyone can say that about any particular project from any particular company, from any moment in the progression of personal computing over the past 50 years. This isn't Borland, and Steve wasn't Phillippe Kahn, to use one obvious example.

Steve broke the mold in so many ways, and this place was one of those paths. Before you pass judgement on it, you should experience it from the inside and give it a chance. The guy saw things in such unorthodox ways you probably don't understand 10 percent of the potential of this place. You should probably take a look at the Pixar campus and all the stories about how unusual it was compared to anything else in the industry. Steve extended his tenets about interaction and sharing to a definite workspace and it helped the people who worked there in ways they never could have imagined, yet once it was in place it seemed so simple, so obvious.

This mentality was woven through everything that came out since the year after Steve returned to Apple, and it never stopped amazing me. The introduction of the iPhone was the pinnacle of his approach on a product basis, and if you want to understand the potential of Campus 2 (I refrain from calling it "The Spaceship", because there is another name that will come out after the staff moves in), watch that introduction video again.

That guy was one of a kind, and despite all the contempt that revisionists like to heap on him, he WAS the company, and the company was him.
 
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