Cupertino City Council Gives Unanimous Approval for Apple's New Campus [Updated]

[likemyorbs]

You are wrong.

Nope, you are. They have proof, you have nothing.

 

[powers74]

The Maps icon in iOS7 is the location of the new campus btw.

and it looks like the traveler is headed back to 1 Infinite Loop.

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Steve would never have allowed this.

Money can be spent better otherwise.

We're all talking about the same company that re-faced one of their stores (and, not really the store, mind you, just the facade with a logo that signifies an underground store) with slightly bigger pieces of glass just because it looked better, right?

 

[StyxMaker]

Apple should hire me to work at their new campus. I have the skill set and qualifications to be an asset to their company. I will create more than enough value to justify my compensation. My first suggestion would be for their marketing team to get Jonathan Ive a proper wardrobe so he can stop embarrassing himself with V-necks and chest hair in all of his new product promotional videos.

You have a very strange obssession with another man's chest hair.

 

[rstone3]

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.

This. I bet that he cut / pasted the title of the article on his phone. Easier than re-typing or dictating it. The capitalization is the give away.

 

[PatrickCocoa]

I can see clearly now . . .

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."

Completely off topic, but the above is why the US version of western civilization will collapse in a few hundred years.

 

[mripadmini]

Why are they getting rid of the hp campus building? If it's not it falling down then I don't see the point of demolishing it, the local high school around here is from the 1950's and I guarantee that hp building is newer than that.

 

[C DM]

Why are they getting rid of the hp campus building? If it's not it falling down then I don't see the point of demolishing it, the local high school around here is from the 1950's and I guarantee that hp building is newer than that.

Because Apple wants to have their own buildings/campus there set up in the way they need/want?

 

[oliversl]

I can understand there is bureaucracy, but this is Apple and Apple's spaceship! Come on, I would hire all the staff needed in order to approve this ASAP. Two years since SJ presented it? Its a shame.

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."

 

[rdlink]

Umm, but that agrees with what he is saying...

Ummm, but no it doesn't. Just because a college, school, university is a campus does not mean that a business or other facility cannot be called one. Nasa's JSC has been referred to as a campus since it was built.

His implication was that this was some new age invention by tech companies, which it is not.

 

[freediverdude]

I think it's hard to fully appreciate how big this building will be unless one is lucky enough to see it in person. It's Apple's Pentagon.

I didn't believe this until I actually went and looked at the plans a bit with the numbers. The width of the building actually will be similar to the Pentagon. And if you either counted the two parking lot basements, or if Apple were to build a couple "inner rings" similar to how the Pentagon is built, the square footage would actually be approaching the same size. As is, the above ground square footage is close to half the Pentagon with just the single ring. This will be a massive building!

 

[larryw]

Oh great. Now we get even more clueless Apple hipster droids wandering lost around Cupertino...

 

[iphoneclassic]

Ancient Aliens are not going help with innovation. Innovation stopped two years back, you can only put so much lipstick on the ...

 

[WardC]

I am sure Tim Cook reads MacRumors and has it on his Address Bar....

Like me

 

[Mudbug]

heh - I bet Tim gets his R&D updates just by reading MR when he gets Jony Ive's voicemail.

Hi, Tim.

 

[spyguy10709]

Right because Apple is a university now and I can enrol in a bachelor of computer engineering...etc at Apple University. Nope? Oh right... it's just a training facility for Apple staff? Great.

How long has this been in the pipeline anyway? 10 years at least? I assumed it had already been built.

A campus is another word for a complex of buildings.

Clown comment, bro.

 

[user418]

What did I miss? Out of 116 posts no.... Beam me up Scottie?

 

[Tech198]

Of course the Council would approve it ..

Who can resist a spaceship.

 

[Logonmac]

You made my day LOL

What if it really is a spaceship and Captain Tim leaves all of us so we're stuck with phones with fingerprint sensors in weird places?

Dont do it Tim...don't do it

Are you a script writer?

 

[fat phil]

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.

Roswell, 1947.

It was a weather balloon. Seriously.