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Leaked Pics Inside of Apple's Prototype Testing Labs

AbSoluTc said:
Millions of dollars and all they can come up with for storage are plastic bins you can buy at your local office/home store? Really?

I also must say, these aren't "leaked" photos. I am not sure the intent of the photos but clearly it was planned for someone to take the photos. Everything is covered in anticipation.

OP - do you work there? That would explain it. Somewhat.
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Covered to prevent the journalists & bloggers from reporting on new products in development. If you think the covers were only there to prevent photographs, you are mistaken. Do you really think Apple has the mindset of 'you can look at our new iPod touch, so long as you don't take a photo of it'?
 
mlts22 said:
Quick digression: I really wish Autodesk had true AutoCAD support. Not AutoCAD LT, not running AutoCAD in a Parallels VM, but true Mac support.

The days of the UNIX workstation are gone (HP, IBM, and Sun have all gone server only with their offerings), with only Macs being left. Autodesk should realize this and start doing more for OS X.
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They announced a few months ago they're bringing AutoCad to the Mac.
 
calb said:
Covered to prevent the journalists & bloggers from reporting on new products in development. If you think the covers were only there to prevent photographs, you are mistaken. Do you really think Apple has the mindset of 'you can look at our new iPod touch, so long as you don't take a photo of it'?
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That was my point. All the items were covered in anticipation of someone coming in to take pictures. Photos, looking, touching, journalists, whatever. It was covered. If these were "leaked" photos, everything wouldn't have been covered. It was a PLANNED thing.
 
AbSoluTc said:
That was my point. All the items were covered in anticipation of someone coming in to take pictures. Photos, looking, touching, journalists, whatever. It was covered. If these were "leaked" photos, everything wouldn't have been covered. It was a PLANNED thing.
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I could very well be wrong, but I seem to recall that the group were told they cannot take pictures. The fact this site went against that request/condition might be why they refer to the pictures as 'leaked', i.e. not supposed to get out.

If they were at liberty to take pictures––in which case I'm mistaken––then yes, I don't know where the OP is coming from.
 
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I knew these pics weren't originally from the OP, but I couldn't find the source video...someone else below me did though.
 
AbSoluTc said:
Millions of dollars and all they can come up with for storage are plastic bins you can buy at your local office/home store? Really?
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So because they spend millions of dollars on a facility they must spend thousands of dollars on custom designed, one of a kind storage bins made out of exotic materials? How about spending the money where it counts and use off-the-shelf equipment where it doesn't matter? I don't think they built these rooms just for looks or to impress people.
 
gloss said:
They announced a few months ago they're bringing AutoCad to the Mac.
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Warbrain said:
They're supposedly coming but yes, you're dead on right. This is why they'd be running Windows.
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This is where Apple should see about expanding a market in this direction. Sun stopped making high end workstations. Same with IBM. As of now, even with the specs of a 2009 Mac Pro, Apple's offerings are price competitive with anything that HP and Dell offers, comparing feature to feature.

Apple needs to woo high end application makers back to Mac, such as Autodesk, Dassault (maker of CATIA), and win back the high end print market which was almost exclusively Mac until recently.

The advantage of these companies doing this is the fact that OS X is a very low latency OS. Since there are relatively few hardware combinations compared to generic PC hardware, support is relatively easy. OS X users are far less likely to pirate so there would be more paid for seats.

Finally, Apple could market the package in their store and make a deal for support, so users have a single contact point, so regardless of OS, application, or hardware, a user doesn't have to worry about being bounced between companies. This in itself is a big factor in selling Macs in general.

Win/win/win scenario for everyone involved.
 
HitchHykr said:
So because they spend millions of dollars on a facility they must spend thousands of dollars on custom designed, one of a kind storage bins made out of exotic materials? How about spending the money where it counts and use off-the-shelf equipment where it doesn't matter? I don't think they built these rooms just for looks or to impress people.
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Yeah, because I said that word for word in my post. :rolleyes: I thought it was funny that Apple touts all this money in research and blah blah blah, yet they have these $5 - $25 dollar off the shelf bins. If they were that concerned with saving money and not wasting it, perhaps they could have hired some REAL people to hold the iPhone 4 instead of the dummy hands and heads. That would have saved them quite a few pennies don't you think?
 
iPhoneHome said:
All good things were meant to be leaked...right? Just in case you weren't one of the lucky 11 journalist to walk the inner hallways of Apple's testing labs I got a few snapshots for ya.

You’ll see the prototypes covered and surrounded my iMacs, the outside/inside of an anechoic chamber of death, the dummy heads and hands used to test reception and a 3D cat scan of the iPhone 4’s internals.

More over at: http://the*****geek.com/2010/07/24/inside-apples-secret-testing-lab-pics/

Enjoy!
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I just read this OP and it is totally disingenuous. On the blog itself (I redacted the URL) at least, credit is given to ABC: http://www.hulu.com/watch/164786/abc-nightline-sour-apple
 
AbSoluTc said:
If they were that concerned with saving money and not wasting it, perhaps they could have hired some REAL people to hold the iPhone 4 instead of the dummy hands and heads. That would have saved them quite a few pennies don't you think?
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Dummies are superior to real people in many cases for scientific reasons. That is, dummy parts are going to have very consistent and measurable properties in terms of how they interact with a signal and can be placed in a precise spot without moving. I'm sure they also use real people for other tests.

Apple has decided to spend their money on things that are worth it (e.g. expensive test chambers that yield superior scientific results) and not stupid things like expensive part bins that are no better than the plastic ones they are using.
 
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