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So much for not being able to fly drones in that area....

Because it's not like there's any way of filing for a waiver or anything... With the right justification, notice, and details, you can get a waiver for almost any area (except military bases, and probably national monuments).

EDIT: My mistake, I thought the concern was with official no-fly zone or air space restrictions, not Apple's issue.
 
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I just look forward to a virtual tour if they have one during the keynote and want to see more about what this building is all about.
 
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Because it's not like there's any way of filing for a waiver or anything... With the right justification, notice, and details, you can get a waiver for almost any area (except military bases, and probably national monuments).

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17...with-security-forces-seeking-to-cease-flights

Maybe it's the same video, not really sure, I don't have time to watch it, tbh. But there was comments over a month ago that Apple was going to lock down the site.
 
Because it's not like there's any way of filing for a waiver or anything... With the right justification, notice, and details, you can get a waiver for almost any area (except military bases, and probably national monuments).

You don't need a waiver for this. Apple doesn't own the sky. Apple may have said they were going to "crack down" on the drones, but they have no legal authority to do so.
 
Apart from the Moon, is this officially the largest round thing that human sapiens have ever constructed?
 
I really hope I get to visit it next year. Is it far from San francisco; how does public transportation work to get to the campus?
 
Anybody else want to pull that blue protective layer off the roof? Maybe they are saving it for the official unboxing of Apple Park...
 
I think these drone videos of the buildings have run their course. Nothing really new to see anymore but less dirt and more trees.
 
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The September iPhone event has been held at Bill Graham Civic Center in SF for a couple years now, and it has a 8500 seat capacity. Steve Jobs Theatre will hold 1000, which is less than 12% of the capacity of Bill Graham Civic Center.

Even if it's ready, and it looks like September is still a couple months too soon, that event is way too big. Perhaps a press event like a Mac update in Oct/Nov for the iMac Pro, High Sierra, and maybe even the new Mac Pro.

Probably didn’t use all that space at Bill Graham, I wonder just how many people were invited to last years event, anyone know? 1000 seats I would think would be enough, it’s over 3 times the size of town hall. One of the other reasons for using outside locations was the hands on area, the Steve Jobs theater does have a few areas for after event hands on that town hall didn’t have.

Do they realease number of invites to events?
 
I'm pretty sure the Large Hadron Collider has it beat by a fairly significant margin.
Ok, I see your what you are saying...

Jony I've has designed a dual function Apple Office and Small Hadron Collider in the same building, presumably so he can extract all the Higgs Bosons from the iPhone 9 so that it has no mass at all ?
 
Apart from the Moon, is this officially the largest round thing that human sapiens have ever constructed?
Nah, CERN's Large Hadron Collider is way bigger than the Apple Park's spaceship building.

Oops, looks like someone else already pointed this out.

The LHC is about 8.6 kilometers in diameter. By contrast the spaceship building is 0.464 km in diameter meaning you could put 18 spaceship buildings side-by-side inside the LHC and still have room for a couple of soccer fields.
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I really hope I get to visit it next year. Is it far from San francisco; how does public transportation work to get to the campus?
It's probably around 42 miles as the crow flies.

Caltrain to Santa Clara station, switch to VTA bus 81. Might be about two hours each way. SF Bay Area public transit is not very good.
 
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Nah, CERN's Large Hadron Collider is way bigger than the Apple Park's spaceship building.

Oops, looks like someone else already pointed this out.

The LHC is about 8.6 kilometers in diameter. By contrast the spaceship building is 0.464 km in diameter meaning you could put 18 spaceship buildings side-by-side inside the LHC and still have room for a couple of soccer fields.
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It's probably around 42 miles as the crow flies.

Caltrain to Santa Clara station, switch to VTA bus 81. Might be about two hours each way. SF Bay Area public transit is not very good.
2 hours! Maybe I should forget it!
 
Looks amazing. Impressed at the speed which it's all come to together.

Maybe a stupid question, but how are they going to remove the remaining heavy equipment and vehicles from the center park? Drive them through the open door/ cafe area?
 



Matthew Roberts has shared his latest drone tour of Apple Park, providing a closer look at Apple's new headquarters as construction wraps up.


There aren't many notable changes since the July video, but August's edition reveals further landscaping efforts, including more trees -- there will be over 9,000 in total -- planted within the inner circle of the main building.

Apple has also begun paving certain areas of Apple Park, including the walkway to Steve Jobs Theater. Many areas of the campus remain covered in dirt, however, so it's clear there is still a lot of landscaping work to be completed.

Some of Apple's employees have already moved into the new headquarters, while others like design chief Jony Ive and his team will follow suit later this year. The new campus will eventually house around 12,000 employees.

Apple will still use its Infinite Loop headquarters as an ancillary campus, along with a handful of other offices in the Cupertino and Sunnyvale area.

Article Link: Latest Apple Park Drone Video Shows More Trees and Paved Walkway to Steve Jobs Theater
[doublepost=1502995244][/doublepost]As discussed in a recent BBC programme, Apple are only looking to pay a fraction of land tax on this building, shame on them !!!
 
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