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First Apple Park Drone Video of 2018 Captures Footage of Courtyard and More
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I wish, no I hope that Steve, wherever he is, can see this.
It's beautiful. At least, the view from the drone ;-)
I haven't spent that much money with Apple in the last years (but also not much elsewhere). So I'm not really worried about "my" money being misspent.
It's beautiful. At least, the view from the drone ;-)
I haven't spent that much money with Apple in the last years (but also not much elsewhere). So I'm not really worried about "my" money being misspent.
If you’ve wondered where One Infinite Loop is in relation to Apple Park, it’s surprisingly very close. I always imagined it was in some other part of town.
Besides Apple Park itself, Apple has been busy consolidating properties around it. It owns several plots of land along the edges of the park and on the other side of the highway.
Original Apple Park plan in blue. Additional Apple properties in yellow. One Infinite Loop in red.
For those of you interested in architecture and in what Apple has been doing to naturalize these former concrete suburban office parks, there’s a real potential for expanding the park to encompass a much larger area, maybe building a second spaceship if they manage to buy out the rest of the office park south of the highway. Apple already needs more office space. It’s grown faster than they anticipated.
Besides Apple Park itself, Apple has been busy consolidating properties around it. It owns several plots of land along the edges of the park and on the other side of the highway.
Original Apple Park plan in blue. Additional Apple properties in yellow. One Infinite Loop in red.
For those of you interested in architecture and in what Apple has been doing to naturalize these former concrete suburban office parks, there’s a real potential for expanding the park to encompass a much larger area, maybe building a second spaceship if they manage to buy out the rest of the office park south of the highway. Apple already needs more office space. It’s grown faster than they anticipated.
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Hopefully not the middle one.
No no, soon to be funded by a hippie initiative of investors wanting kids to use their iPhones less because they claim to have $1.5million in tresearch showing kids stated their addicted to iPhones or iPads and piss poor parents that feel their kids are addicted.
This kind of idiocy is proof that instead of showing kids or seeing kids being more technologically involved and productive, the western world wants to continue falling behind the rest of the world in terms of engagement and advancement with technology.
Personally I want to see the next drone video showing employees having sex on the new Apple Park campus
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They've accomplished more out of a garage than this new 'O'rifice.
I thought so too until they released the iMac Pro. Apple is spending $1,200 on each office chair; certainly they can afford to set aside iMac Pros at cost for each work station that requires a desktop Mac. Most employees will be using their assigned MacBookPros though. Before that, I thought it was ridiculous that they’d have LG monitors and Mac Pros since they didn’t make displays anymore. The iMac Pro solves that.
There’ll be 12,000 employees at Apple Park. Most of them will have assigned MacBookPros but let’s just say that conservatively, about a quarter of them will need an iMac Pro at their desk. At a retail cost of $5,000, that’s $15M, the same budget they’re spending on just the office chairs alone. And Apple isn’t paying full price for an iMac Pro. They can afford to put a top of the line iMac Pro on every desk at less than the cost of their furniture budget. And iMac Pros can be tethered to MacBookPros as an external screen.
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Guys, most of the employees moving into the new spaceship building already have work computers, the ones they've been using while they were at 1 Infinite Loop (and other buildings). Apple does not need to deploy new machines for all the people moving in, just new hires.
However, buying new chairs is not so far fetched. Office task chairs are bulky. It's easier to leave the ones at 1 Infinite Loop behind for the people who will be moving into those vacated offices. Same thing with cubicle walls and office furniture (desks, cabinets, drawers, shelves). The cubicles might be reconfigured to suit the needs of the team moving into the space, but it makes no sense in moving a bunch of furniture around or in and out of buildings. These are modular and standardized pieces.
Also, Apple is not paying $1,200 per new office chair. As a big corporate customer placing a very large order, they would be getting an attractive volume price quote, probably close to the wholesale price. $1,200 is the retail price, what Joe Consumer would pay at some office furniture store.
As for work computers, my understanding from some Apple employees is that most employees get to choose what Mac to use. Of course, if you are part of a Mac hardware engineering team, you are required to use one of the devices you work on (MacBook Pro engineers work on MacBook Pros), but others more or less can choose what they want to use, as long as it is appropriate for their roles and tasks. A receptionist is not getting a Mac Pro.
At least one Apple employee pal divulged to me that the now-discontinued 11" MacBook Air was the most popular employee computer (for those who got to choose), at least before the retina MacBook came out. I'm guessing many have the 11" MacBook Air (or newer retina MacBook) plugged into a wide-screen monitor and external keyboard at their work desk.
However, buying new chairs is not so far fetched. Office task chairs are bulky. It's easier to leave the ones at 1 Infinite Loop behind for the people who will be moving into those vacated offices. Same thing with cubicle walls and office furniture (desks, cabinets, drawers, shelves). The cubicles might be reconfigured to suit the needs of the team moving into the space, but it makes no sense in moving a bunch of furniture around or in and out of buildings. These are modular and standardized pieces.
Also, Apple is not paying $1,200 per new office chair. As a big corporate customer placing a very large order, they would be getting an attractive volume price quote, probably close to the wholesale price. $1,200 is the retail price, what Joe Consumer would pay at some office furniture store.
As for work computers, my understanding from some Apple employees is that most employees get to choose what Mac to use. Of course, if you are part of a Mac hardware engineering team, you are required to use one of the devices you work on (MacBook Pro engineers work on MacBook Pros), but others more or less can choose what they want to use, as long as it is appropriate for their roles and tasks. A receptionist is not getting a Mac Pro.
At least one Apple employee pal divulged to me that the now-discontinued 11" MacBook Air was the most popular employee computer (for those who got to choose), at least before the retina MacBook came out. I'm guessing many have the 11" MacBook Air (or newer retina MacBook) plugged into a wide-screen monitor and external keyboard at their work desk.
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2 years is being generous. Apple's Macs have always been obsolete three years before they debut
So what?
If you're an iOS engineer, do you really need the latest and greatest hardware to do your job? No, you do not.
Xcode runs fine on a two-year old Mac.
And it's not just the local economy, like construction workers, electricians, plumbers, etc. who work in the SF Bay Area.
Some factory in Germany built those huge glass windows. Someone else moved them here.
Same thing with much of the stuff in the new building: cubicle walls, office furniture, network cables, toilet fixtures, the famous wood tables that have been mentioned here before. The equipment in the cafeteria's kitchen. The various machines in the new fitness center.
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You’re correct.
R&D is in its own completely separate, 4 storey building right beside the main building. I’d say that’s where all the innovative stuff will come from.
I suddenly want to work at Apple now just to get an iMac Pro.
I'd laugh hard though if Apple still tried to cheap out here. The backlash would be insane.
There seems to be a marsh developing in the parkland between the theatre and main campus building. Not sure if that’s intentional or just bad drainage.
Also, yeah, it's a golf course right now, none of that gently rolling wildflower glades from the CGIs
Also, yeah, it's a golf course right now, none of that gently rolling wildflower glades from the CGIs
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That's basically my setup: clamshell mode linked to a 4K monitor and a wireless keyboard.
There have been numerous posts on forums from employees (or ex-employees) saying about how they are provided equipment that is at least 2/3 gens old. So many people want to work for these top tech companies that they don't need to pay the most or provide the best employment packages. There are articles about how more than 2 million people a year apply for roles at Google.I suddenly want to work at Apple now just to get an iMac Pro.
I'd laugh hard though if Apple still tried to cheap out here. The backlash would be insane.
I am sure that doesn't apply to all, sales and marketing for example (just as they do in any company it seems) are sure of made sure they get all the new shiny stuff.
Going to be a shame that they will have to get parts of it taken apart by the builders after only 12 to 18 months as it won't be working as well by then, and need to have work done on it.
( Oh sorry my mistake, that's the items Apple sells it's loyal customers )
( Oh sorry my mistake, that's the items Apple sells it's loyal customers )
Pity they didn't spend some of that 5 billion on putting together a bug-free Mac operating system.
Man, for this money they could have developed 3 new Mac Mini's/Macberry Pie's, redeveloped a decent iPad keyboard solution, fixed the protruding camera plus 80% of the iOS bugs.
But no, it is in our customers' interest to be staring at their aggregated symbol of wealth and its 20% thinner staircases where Joni spent his time on...
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