Something that can fall on people and kill them taking months to design is no big deal.
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Mysterious Apple Park Arch is for a May 17 Event Celebrating Steve Jobs and Formal Apple Park Opening
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There's a lack of anything this year.
They'll bump a few specs and call it a year. A simplistic stage design took everyone by surprise.
Mac Pro? No way, bro.
I guess you didn’t read the article... it is made of 100% genuine rainbows, and it includes several 100% genuine leprechauns complete with 100% genuine pots of gold.
There’s a reason it took eight years and 229 designers to bring Jony Ive's vision to fruition, duh. Everybody’s all mad just because it took 4,077 Mac Pro engineers, 2,741 keyboard reliability engineers and $62 billion to pull this off? Did you not understand? It’s literally got freakin leprechauns with freakin pots of gold!!
Nobody understands courageous innovation anymore... what’s this world coming to?
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As a Brit of a certain age I like to imagine Zippy, George and Bungle messing around on Geoffrey's mac or iPad. Zippy would probably break it and then blame it on Bungle and/or George. Bungle would be outraged and George would admonish Zippy for not being very nice, and Zippy would eventually apologise and then they'd all have a sing-song with Rod, Jane and Freddy.
I realise this all sounds bizarre if you have no idea who I am talking about, but be comforted by the fact the reality of the TV show was probably even more bizarre than it sounds.
I realise this all sounds bizarre if you have no idea who I am talking about, but be comforted by the fact the reality of the TV show was probably even more bizarre than it sounds.
Watching it back is a real WTF experience. Add Captain Pugwash into that category as well.
What PR are you referring to? The story revolves around drone footage and an internal Apple memo that was leaked.
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I live in a city that has that amount of trees and more around everywhere.
I never understand those times when people have been working for months on a concept that is so sparse/simple
Why would you think that decorative arch would provide protection from wind or rain? That makes no sense whatsoever.
For proper wind/rain protection, of course you would need an umbrella made from iPhones. That would be very pretty, but with lots of utility, too.
Don’t you know courageous innovation when you see it? Use your head!
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Ahh, I should have realized. I wondered why the color pattern was not in typical spectrum (rainbow) order. Didn't realize it's from the original Apple logo.
The arch is in Steve Jobs’ Apple logo sequence: green, yellow, orange, red, violet, blue (from top to bottom). I’ve heard that the color sequencing was chosen by Jobs; he liked it better than the naturally occurring order.
Steve Jobs is looking down, yelling, "What are you doing? Bozos!"
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Seriously?! For an arch?! Maybe now we know why it is taking so long for new products to be released.
Got it...you and many others here seriously believe that an internal Apple event honoring Steve Jobs will impact product development. Kind of follows the hackneyed: If only Tim Cook wouldn't spend so much time giving interviews we'd have a new MacPro and updated iMacs.
Probably only on AppleTV with a subscription. Apple is remembering me to the excessive party's of the "My sweet sixteen" shows aired by MTV long time ago.
Don't get me wrong, if everything runs fine at Apple and their products were as compelling they once were, i would applaud the party for the Apple workers.
But reading 'it took three months to complete' and it's perfect into the finest detail.... it makes me upset and more proof how far our needs have been drifting apart.
Actually, see the video I posted above where Steve Jobs talks about focus. If it's true that they spent months working on a stage, then something is definitely wrong. We do know that "working months" on it doesn't mean that they started months ago and finished just a few days ago while doing nothing else. They probably spent 5 to 10 minutes a day on that (without adding attention residue issues), at least for execs. This doesn't change that stuff like that IS a distraction. Add interviews, books, side-projects, etc and you can see the problem.
Seriously? They being the group within Apple's roughly 65,000 non-retail employees that focuses on product development?
Ok. Believe what you want to believe. I'll just have a big chuckle on that.
How did Apple become so astonishingly successful, one of the most successful companies in the world, waisting time on such triviality! More companies should take notice and behave similarly.