French News Channel Gets Rare Access Into Apple Park, 'One of the Most Secret Places on the Planet'

[MacLawyer]

Shame there is not an English version as it would be a great watch.

Meh. I speak French. You didn’t miss much. Just the usual corporate-speak.

 

[Pezimak]

I laugh how Apple acts like they are the SAS or Navy Seals, undercover narcotics agents etc etc. Blurring faces of Apple employees. It's a good publicity stunt.
Still will be interesting to see what the inside of the giant polo/ doughnut is like.

 

[bigcat318]

Not exactly. I was thinking more of the ones where they mount a camera in one location and then shot a few frames a day during the whole construction process without moving the camera. So it looks like the whole thing is growing out of the ground when you turn the frames into a motion picture.

It would have been difficult to find a good spot for such a camera to capture the full scope of the job. There are not tall buildings in that area/city. Apple had a company hired to do drone fly overs daily to provide updates for construction purposes.

 

[HarryDevlin]

I've been on the new campus several times.

The "spaceship" is an amazing building, but mainly for marketing and sales employees. The engineers that design the actual chips and other hardware internals didn't want to be in the main building and are in other locations both on and off the Apple Park campus.

The cafeteria is awesome, both the food and the seating area, but it's not free like Google and it's not super-cheap. You have to order on an iPad kiosk (perhaps employees can order remotely, not sure) and pay for food with an NFC capable device (it may only be Apple Pay, not sure if they disabled Google Pay or contactless credit cards). Regular brewed coffee and tea are free.

Only the lower level of "the Spaceship" lets you walk all the way around, the upper levels do not. If you want to go to someone's office on the same floor as yours, but on the other side of the building, you have to go down to the ground floor, walk around, then go back up to the section where their office is located, the reason they did this is to maximize usable space for offices, rather than use the space for hallways.

It's a long walk from the parking garages next to I-280 to the main building, but there are bicycles available if you get to work early enough. Some employees bring their own bicycle to ride from the garage to their office.

 

[rpmurray]

It's a long walk from the parking garages next to I-280 to the main building, but there are bicycles available if you get to work early enough. Some employees bring their own bicycle to ride from the garage to their office.

Kind of surprising that Apple doesn't offer some kind of trolley service.

 

[bigcat318]

Kind of surprising that Apple doesn't offer some kind of trolley service.

The more important people probably are parking in the spots under the main building and not in the deck. I've also made the walk from the deck and it does indeed suck.

 

[HarryDevlin]

The first time I visited they would not even allow me to take a selfie outside of the "Spaceship."

There's really nothing to see in the hallways, as the French TV crew found out. It's minimalist Steve Jobs design. Got to eat at the cafe which was very good.