Tim Cook has done some things right. But can anyone really argue that the company has indeed changed, even subtly, under his watch? The pandering to the emerging markets. Long wait times between product updates. Incremental advancements to the extreme. Marketing "culture," "style," "beauty," over the specs of the devices. Meetings with Carl Icahn, providing dividends and stock buy backs, hyper sensitivity to the whims of the markets. All dramatic changes since Jobs passed. It's not arguable, those changes at least.
[doublepost=1472892843][/doublepost]Reminds me of a giant ring piece.
One month after the latest video update on Apple's second campus, today a new drone video was posted online with a couple minutes worth of footage showing new headway made on the project. In the video (which was shot using a DJI Inspire 1 Pro drone), solar panels on the roof of the campus are nearing completion as the main building continues to take the shape of Steve Jobs' vision.
The outside of the building has seen a lot of development, with the glass facade nearly finished both on the inside and outside of the circular structure. Construction is also continuing apace on the nearby auxiliary buildings, including one for R&D, two finished garages that will hold 8,000 cars, and the campus' underground auditorium.
As the project nears the end of construction, landscaping is getting a heavier focus as well. Most notably, a large pond with a surrounding garden at the center of the campus has begun taking shape, with more detailed outlines and giant boulders put in place within the future pond area.
Spread across the entire campus, including the new garden, Apple plans to have more than 7,000 trees on the site consisting of 300 different species, including fruit trees. Employee amenities will include various exercise-focused zones like joggling and cycling trails, and courts for basketball and tennis.
The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2016, with employees moving in towards the beginning of 2017.
Article Link: Apple Campus 2 Drone Video Shows Nearly Complete Main Building and Landscape Updates
Yes, maybe if we can identify the seventh symbol.It cannot fly. But once finished, it can summon the ancient Aztec Star Gods right back down to Earth.
Yes, nevertheless, they won't recall all the iphones with the touch disease problem. That's greed my friend.
What a waste of money, imho.
I like the idea of it but in day to day life it seems impractical, I imagine it like this:
Damn I need a HDMI cable from IT..., a half hour to get on the other side of the building...,nah dont need the cable anymore...
I'm still not entirely sure what this facility is gonna do. Is it a college for Apple engineering? If so that's pretty awesome. Or is it something else?
It's hard to understand the difference you are discussing since you only described one of the two choices given. A circle, since so much technicality has been requested, is a ridiculously narrow ring, one line thick. Obviously, a building could never be a circle, 3D humans wouldn't fit in a 2D structure. Are you thinking the ring compared to a disc?This is where it's useful to understand the difference between a ring and a circular plan. To cut across the diameter of a ring plan building requires exiting and re-entering the building. A person on the 4th floor of the building wishing to meet with a person on the 4th floor on the opposite side of the ring would be forced to take an elevator to the ground floor, leave the building (assuming it isn't raining), cut across the diameter of the building, re-enter as close as possible to their destination, and take another elevator back to the 4th floor. Or walk the half the circumference of the building. The ring is a pretty lousy space-planning device. It will however look awesome from the air.
Doesn't sound very legal to me.I wonder when Apple will start shooting the drones down.
Yeah, it's a bit of a circular argument.The circulosity of this circularity circles the freekin obvious.
You are forgetting several things, but most importantly that the number one wanna be architect involved with this project was Steve Jobs. He thought he knew a lot about architecture, but in reality, knew not a lot. A gigantic ring (lacking even any skyways bicecting the interior courtyard, which would have helped a great deal) may have suited Steve's personal aesthetics but by no means does it make for great or even functional architecture.
So why do airports need moving walkways and carts? Because they are designed first and foremost to meet the very specific demands of aircraft. If you design a building specifically for people that requires these devices to make them work, then the practical aspects of the design are bound to be questioned. Rings are simply not efficient building plans, which is why you see them used so infrequently, and never on the scale we are seeing here.
Well I'll be damned haha! Learn something new everyday.That wasn't a typo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joggling
[doublepost=1472936918][/doublepost]Compare this with the Pentagon, built by the Corp of Engineers. While it took less time, the Pentagon probably cost more.Well I'll be damned haha! Learn something new everyday.
It's very nice but is it not risky to group everything there? I mean case flooding, earthquake or simply terrorist attack... The whole Apple company will be down in one single attack...
I like the idea of it but in day to day life it seems impractical, I imagine it like this:
Damn I need a HDMI cable from IT..., a half hour to get on the other side of the building...,nah dont need the cable anymore...
Many of the breakthroughs you list resulted from initiatives under Jobs. As for USB-C 3.1, that's not really an Apple breakthrough, and I would hardly call the MacBook a breakthrough when you can't even charge it and simultaneously use a USB peripheral without a $60 adapter.
I wonder when Apple will start shooting the drones down.
Apple INTRODUCED the breakthrough. And what you say about USB-C? Do you understand that devices should be thought to be daisy chained, not star topology?
I think people should step back from knee-jerk condemnations of the new campus and put aside whatever biases they have towards Apple for whatever reason, whether it is dislike for Tim Cook, anger over obviously needed product updates, misplaced social justice bile related to tax rates or sourcing practices - whatever - and look at campus transport as simply another problem to solve. IOW, relax, and try to offer an original, capable solution instead of mocking the company.
IMO, getting around inside C2 is going to involve three different modes: manual, powered individual assist, and powered group assist.
Manual, in its most obvious form, is going to be walking. It may include shared bikes, personal skateboards, perhaps roller blades? Maybe Apple will encourage everyone to come up with their most innovative solutions.
Powered individual assist will most likely be the Segway, or some next gen version of it. Remember Steve Jobs reacting to the Segway when he was given a preview? No, not "It sucks!", but rather what he said in the period prior to launch: "This will change the way cities are designed." Perhaps the ring/circle/toroid/earth's home button/butthole design was his way of applying that idea.
Powered group assist will most likely be a moving walkway, but may also include some sort of maglev platforms or autonomous trams. Maybe we'll get a few steps closer to an actual hoverboard from this, though if it happens it will most likely be a captive board instead of one that can dart all over.