Apple Park Campus Shown Off in New Drone Video, Mystery Stage Included

[G5isAlive]

I like the donut building but that landscaping is really poor. Way too geometric for an English garden.

yeah I was wondering about the military precision of some of the trees, but before passing judgement I would like to know if there is a functional reason.. are they fruit trees of some sort (not even sure if Apple trees grow their, but wouldn't that be cool if so)?

 

[mollyc]

I like the gardening/landscape. I think it would be really pretty to walk around. I hope the arced trees are apple trees!

 

[G5isAlive]

It's a tree nursery. They decided they would grow most of their own trees from saplings rather than buy them in. So the regularly spaced trees are just plantations which will be redistributed when they reach the appropriate size and the campus is ready to accommodate them. There's a video/article about this somewhere. I think it's a great idea - thinking ahead. Because of the size of Apple Park the alternative would have been to clean out local nurseries and bring great quantities of mature trees long distances, which is obviously not very eco friendly.

Oh cool, thanks for the answer rather than a judgement. This is why I come to MacRumors to actually learn something.
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Which they did, and there was plenty of criticism about it at the time. If you still want to believe that Apple grew those trees themselves: The Campus isn't old enough to have naturally grown trees of the size that you can see in the video. Just plant one yourself and spend the next couple of decades watching it grow very slowly.

Come on. Clearly they could not start from seeds for all the trees. That they started anywhere (small trees, nursery) is pretty cool.
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This why your iPhones and computers are so high - in case you were wondering.


Do you have to walk to get to someone office on the other side of the circle?

"I'm here to meet with Miss So-and-So.

"Yes Sir - Miss So-and-So's is a half mile walk in that direction. Just follow the curve and you will run right into her. Have a good day!"

Yep this is exactly why Apple products lead the way in imagination and well thought out design. They attract highly motivated and creative people and give them a good work space. And that doesn't come cheap. You want cheap, you got choices.

 

[SkeletonPete]

Rainbow Stage = California Jam Revival 2019. This time Ritchie Blackmore will be swatting drones with his Stratocaster.

 

[Smith288]

This place would be an optimal location after a civilization collapse.

 

[Jay3846]

I was there two weeks ago. You’re only really allowed to visit the visitor center and that’s about it. I was in the area anyway so just dropped by and had a casual stroll but there’s not much to see because of the trees (those trees make it smell amazing there though so there’s that)

Just curious...
I visited 1 Infinite Loop several years ago and they had (still have?) an Apple Store that non-employees can visit where you can buy Apple logo items (t-shirts, polos, backpacks, and all kinds of other stuff). In fact, that was pretty much the only place where you could get “official” Apple logo items.

So, do they have a similar type of Apple store at the Spaceship?

 

[blacktape242]

It's weird not seeing California on fire.

give it a few months....and I live here.

 

[macduke]

give it a few months....and I live here.

That sucks. We almost moved to Fresno when I was a kid. They flew my dad and mom out there and they looked at houses and they offered to pay my dad twice as much, but the cost of living was so high that we would actually be losing money. Nowadays it's even worse. Add on top of that all the natural disasters from mud slides fires, earthquakes—I just don't get it. I suppose the temperature is usually nice, but in some places more centrally located it can get quite hot.

I currently live in the Midwest, but everyone always thinks we get tornadoes all the time but I haven't even seen one (aside from some storm chasing I did back in college where you drive far away looking for the right storm). They're super rare and typically only affect a small area, unlike hurricanes, unless you get a once a decade storm like Joplin. Someday I'd like to move out to the Eastern Rockies. They occasionally have fires, but it doesn't seem as bad. I love the summer temperatures out there (mostly the low humidity), and I actually like snowy winters. We have lots of fresh air and a forest behind my house, but I love mountains and all the additional outdoor activities.

 

[MLVC]

Just curious...
I visited 1 Infinite Loop several years ago and they had (still have?) an Apple Store that non-employees can visit where you can buy Apple logo items (t-shirts, polos, backpacks, and all kinds of other stuff). In fact, that was pretty much the only place where you could get “official” Apple logo items.

So, do they have a similar type of Apple store at the Spaceship?

Yes, there's a wall with t-shirts, caps etc. The visitor center has one section as a cafe, one section as store (phones, watches, etc, and t-shirts, caps), and one section where you can see a model of the main building and you get an iPad and you can lift roofs etc. Now, I was asked to buy a Swell Apple bottle for a friend, and they don't sell that one in the new visitor center, I had to go to 1 Infinite Loop for that. So there's a difference in what they sell on both locations (they also sold different t-shirts there, the ones in the new visitor center were focussed on Apple Park mainly, the ones in the old shop on animoji's etc.).

 

[PJL500]

All that real estate and all those people and no sign of personal tech innovation!

 

[vpro]

This reminds me of my trips to China to visit my Hakka ancestry - structures known as Tulou.

 

[smirking]

This why your iPhones and computers are so high - in case you were wondering.

The campus isn't as large as the photos and videos of it make it seem. We see a lot of wide angle shots of Apple HQ. I've never gone inside, but pass by the outside of it fairly regularly and the first thing that strikes you when you approach the campus is how close it gets to its boundaries. You picture this ringed fortress that's set back from the road surrounded by a hidden flaming moat, but at some spots, the spaceship actually gets pretty close to the road. There's a Chinese Shopping Center across the street and the two are so close that they feel like they're part of the same complex.

 

[jimothyGator]

This why your iPhones and computers are so high - in case you were wondering.

Apple Campus 2 cost $5 billion to build. Apple has sold about 2 billion iPhones. So, the construction of Apple Campus 2 accounts for about $2.50 of each phone (if we placed that cost entirely on iPhones, and not across all devices). Yes, there's operating expenses, including putting together stages and events, but this is a drop in the bucket to their overall expenses and revenue.

For example, their R&D budget (which is basically salaries for engineers, software developers, and designers) was $14.2 billion in FY2018, or nearly three Campus 2s in a single year.

 

[CarlJ]

Add on top of that all the natural disasters from mud slides fires, earthquakes—I just don't get it.
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I currently live in the Midwest, but everyone always thinks we get tornadoes all the time but I haven't even seen one (aside from some storm chasing I did back in college where you drive far away looking for the right storm). They're super rare and typically only affect a small area, unlike hurricanes, unless you get a once a decade storm like Joplin.

You understand that you're making precisely the same mistake you're accusing others of, right?

California is the third-largest state by area (with the largest population of any state, around 39 million, and the fifth largest economy in the world). Heck, San Diego county is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Things that happen "in California" don't happen in every part of the state, even though people see "fire in California" on the news and think all of California is on fire.

I've lived here all my life, and there's been only one time I can remember when we were told, "stay home, don't travel, because of the fires", and that was due to fires that were still many dozens of miles away. Similarly, major earthquakes have happened elsewhere in the state (as have a handful of mudslides) while I've been alive, but all far far away from here.

It's like someone from another country hearing that the United States had fires or hurricanes, or tornadoes, and just assuming that meant every bit of all 50 states were on fire, or under water, or flying off to Oz to land on a wicked witch.
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Rainbows were just colorful rainbows, and duh, part of the original Apple logo, before it meant anything about orientation.

Aside from the colors being in the right order for Apple's logo, and the wrong order for any Gay Pride connection, it seems like the people who get their noses bent out of shape about "sexual orientation being on display in public" are actually upset about an orientation other than their preferred one appearing anywhere in public. They don't loudly protest the absolutely enormous amount of heterosexual oriented displays we are inundated with every day, including beautiful (and frequently scantily clad) women on billboards and on TV posed and presented in displays specifically designed to sell things to men (as they say, "sex sells"). Our culture is positively drenched with open heterosexual displays, yet if an ad appears anywhere that has a gay couple in it, a small but loud crowd will rise up to call for a boycott of the company in question, for such an affront on their narrow-minded sensibilities.

 

[macduke]

You understand that you're making precisely the same mistake you're accusing others of, right?

California is the third-largest state by area (with the largest population of any state, around 39 million, and the fifth largest economy in the world). Heck, San Diego county is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Things that happen "in California" don't happen in every part of the state, even though people see "fire in California" on the news and think all of California is on fire.

I've lived here all my life, and there's been only one time I can remember when we were told, "stay home, don't travel, because of the fires", and that was due to fires that were still many dozens of miles away. Similarly, major earthquakes have happened elsewhere in the state (as have a handful of mudslides) while I've been alive, but all far far away from here.

It's like someone from another country hearing that the United States had fires or hurricanes, or tornadoes, and just assuming that meant every bit of all 50 states were on fire, or under water, or flying off to Oz to land on a wicked witch.

That's a good point. But it just seems like everywhere in California for the longest time was burning because there was such widespread drought. There were all the memes everywhere online. My wife only knows a few people in California but they all had to evacuate so that plays into my thinking too since it was personal. But for me personally, given the wide variety of natural disasters and the insane price just to buy a house—I don't see the appeal. Also the horrific traffic. I was tempted to go out there to be a designer for a startup after college but just couldn't make the math work out. My house when I bought it in 2016 was around $265K, only a few years old, and has about 3000sqft with a fenced yard and beautifully wooded plot.

I'm really drifting off topic but I live on the edge of a college town of about 150K people with all the usual amenities and movie and music festivals and don't feel like I'm missing out on much. Having a large university there is also a lot of cultural diversity in the area vs. the rest of the state so I feel like it's a good place to raise my kids. The school my daughter is going to this year when she starts kindergarten is about 40% minorities. I honestly think college towns are the best place to raise a family because it combines the best of urban and rural living. I grew up in a larger city and my commute was 50-70 minutes most days. Here it's only 10-15, lol. I can't recommend it enough. Everyone should go find a medium-sized college town to live in, haha.

 

[Ike43]

This why your iPhones and computers are so high - in case you were wondering.


Do you have to walk to get to someone office on the other side of the circle?

"I'm here to meet with Miss So-and-So.

"Yes Sir - Miss So-and-So's is a half mile walk in that direction. Just follow the curve and you will run right into her. Have a good day!"

The answer would be, No. Zones make that possible.

 

[Ike43]

I will be visiting this Apple Park Campus later this year. Can anyone who has already been there tell me what you are allowed to Visit/see and what not? I know they have a Visitor Center Store but beyond that, anything else?
TIA

The campus itself is not open to the public. It's only accessible to employees unless you are invited by a staff member.