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Cupertino City Council Gives Unanimous Approval for Apple's New Campus [Updated]
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Did you even watch the video I posted? It was Steve Jobs giving a keynote presentation to the city council about the new campus. YOU are wrong.
What if L. Ron Hubbard (on his return) .... lands at the apple campus instead of out in the New Mexico desert?
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yea ... I do get the slightest bit queezy when everyone at apple has to assume the "steve" dress code even when they aren't quite "suited" to it. That having been said ... are you suggesting the guy should get his chest shaved? It might be California .... but still ...
And before he passed away he said otherwise. He told Tim to keep the company "as is".
You are wrong.
yes ... if you watch that video from last week ... it was funny watching the council members feel like they should ask SOMETHING so they didn't appear to be rubber stamping wastes of space. I think we've all been in meetings like that.
The one guys asking about the electric car charging stations: "i notice that you only have enough stations to accommodate 1,000 electric cars. Have you planned for when everyone will be driving an electric car?"
That kind of perfectly encapsulated the Cupertino City Council ... good stuff.
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has someone already answered this later in the thread?
if you watch the video ... not surprisingly ... the are aware of the parking issues and are carefully planning for them. I'd be a little pissed if I'd paid a billion dollars for the past architects and engineers on the planet and discovered that they hadn't plannned for parking ... DOH!
They have a shuttle program that is pretty cool .... etc etc ...
Keep the company "as is", meaning keeping it's principles and core values. He never said anything about stopping the planning of the new campus.
Steve might have killed off siri had he lived with it for a while ... but I think he was ALL OVER the new mothership ... LOL
I'll tell you what: post a link of where Steve says anything to suggest that Apple shouldn't move forward with the new campus. Then you can call me wrong all you want.
I've heard aircraft companies around here using the term campus in the same way for years.
I think its clear that the term campus did come from the University setting and was adopted by companies. When the first 2 or 3 definitions of a word are all related to the academic setting it certainly is the primary meaning. Companies adopted the term because they wanted their offices to be more like a university campus with gyms, places to eat, relax. Basically they are trying to make them more appealing to attract you and then keep you there all day and night.
Well, after the approval last night, Mayor Orrin Mahoney said "many of the emails we get say 'you gotta stop dragging your feet on this' and whatever. The city has not dragged its feet at all on this. The staff has been beyond exceptional on this whole project."
Elaborating, Councilman Mark Santoro followed with "everybody wonders why things take two years the amount of government regulations, not from the city, but just in general for a project of this magnitude, are immense. If you look behind me, there's this huge stack of paper. I think we in the last few weeks have had 6,000 pages plus of documentation to go through. Somebody had to write every word of those 6,000 pages. The amount of work that both Apple and the city staff put in was amazing I can't stress how hard it is to put something like this together."
Not wanting to steal anyone's thunder, but I'm pretty sure Tim Cook can string a fairly obvious sentence together on his own
Down to somehow capitalizing all the words that would be capitalized in a headline/title? That would be a rather weird way of writing down even a fairly obvious sentence.Not wanting to steal anyone's thunder, but I'm pretty sure Tim Cook can string a fairly obvious sentence together on his own
Haha... There's at least one of these guys in every MacRumors post!
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