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Mysterious Apple Park Arch is for a May 17 Event Celebrating Steve Jobs and Formal Apple Park Opening

"There are a thousand no's for every yes..."

This was released in 2013, Job's legacy was still fresh in Apple's mindset. We need to go back here.

 
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yaxomoxay said:
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.
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I can counter that Steve Jobs famously micro-managed, even going so far as calling a Google dev at home on the weekend to complain about the colour of an icon.
 
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PickUrPoison said:
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.
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i know, i was beings sarcastic. in my opinion it's not the best way to commemorate s.j.
 
msteele said:
So what? Jobs was just a guy, not some sort of God how many people seems to want to think about him. In his career he screwed up way more than Cook. I remember the first intel MacBook, discolouring top case, it used to go from white to yellow, I had to change it 3 times during the lifespan of the machine, at my expenses. The same machine also has this nice software but that could cause 10 random restart per day making the machine useless. They fixed after 18 month, silently, without admitting fault, 18 month for a severe software bug, and people whine about keyboards.

Jobs was also the *******, when his team screwed with iPhone 4 antenna design, pretended the users were holding the phone...how silly, patronizing and dumb is that? Stuff a 11 years old (stupid) kids would say. Jobs wanted Apple to own the native apps and expects everyone else to make subpar web app, it had to be convinced by other that it made sense to let developers create their own apps (revolutionary right), if it was only for him perhaps there would be no App Store.

People make fun of the HomePod today, perhaps they don’t remember the astonishing success of Job’s iPod Hi-Fi, dead after 6 months. And the price? Same of the HomePod but it was just a dumb and cheaply built speaker, sound quality compared to HomePod was **** and build too.

The wonderful Mighty Mouse from Jobs era? The track ball stopped working every 6 months because of dirt...exactly like the current keyboard lol, except they never fixed it.

Seems to be Apple is quite following in Job’s footsteps

Other Job’s epic fails? Apple Lisa, Mackintosh TV, Apple g4 cube, recruiting John Sculley. Should I continue?
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Agreed sans Hi-Fi. It is an excellent single room speaker / subwoofer when connected via toslink.

Also we have to remember NextStep which never really got off the ground (until most of the OS code was ported to Mac OS X).

The major difference between Tim and Steve is.... Steve had more time to build celebrity status. And Tim is just all around a much nicer individual, not overly intense and demanding like Steve.
 
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One can hope this means the return of the rainbow logo. Also a new retro desktop model designed after the Apple II. With integrated mechanical keyboard, expansion slots, beige/tan case and brown keys. Yet modern internals.:cool:
 
citysnaps said:
They being the group within Apple's roughly 65,000 non-retail employees that focuses on product development?
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No one is claiming that Apple doesn't have the workforce to build a stage. Of course they do. The question is: is Apple's management beginning to be too diluted in way too many side-projects?

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.
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Remember, all companies can fail, falter, or be in deep trouble in a quick time. Now, it's not likely that Apple will become the next Blackberry, but that doesn't mean that Apple will maintain the position it has held in the past 15 years or so. Again, the question is: between this, Beats, News+, TV service, etc. are Apple's execs too diluted?
 
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lunarworks said:
I can counter that Steve Jobs famously micro-managed, even going so far as calling a Google dev at home on the weekend to complain about the colour of an icon.
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Funny story :) But that's the difference between a Steve Jobs and a Tim Cook (or probably 99% of the CEOs, if I have to be honest). I am sure that just the fact that Jobs acknowledged the dev is a huge accomplishment... for the devs. I bet some people even envy him (and he can now say : "I cooperated with Steve Jobs directly and in person!" :) )
 
alexandr said:
every opinion is subjective, that goes without saying, no?
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Sure, everyone has had or her own opinion. But like I said, your not liking the arch doesn’t really have anything to do with Apple’s aesthetics; your aesthetics, sure.

My reply was to your statement “i just don't like it aesthetically, and if apple loses its aesthetics what are we going to be left with?”, stated as if your own aesthetics are somehow indicative of Apple losing theirs.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
No one is claiming that Apple doesn't have the workforce to build a stage. Of course they do. The question is: is Apple's management beginning to be too diluted in way too many side-projects?



Remember, all companies can fail, falter, or be in deep trouble in a quick time. Now, it's not likely that Apple will become the next Blackberry, but that doesn't mean that Apple will maintain the position it has held in the past 15 years or so. Again, the question is: between this, Beats, News+, TV service, etc. are Apple's execs too diluted?
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Do you have any idea how large and deep Apple's management is? Ever wonder why Apple is so successful, especially over the last few years?

And do you really believe product development is going to suffer from a one-off tribute to Steve Jobs, the company's co-founder? Maybe Apple shouldn't have other internal events that most large companies have; ie Christmas parties, guest speakers, product launch event/parties, etc, etc.
 
dilbert99 said:
I never understand those times when people have been working for months on a concept that is so sparse/simple
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Sometimes that's the mark of success. Think of Apple's crazy idea to make a smart phone with no keyboard, and the work it took to design it to work that way. Or consider the work that graphic designers put into creating a logo, where the first draft is too detailed and with extra effort they can come up with a clean and simple version.

Does that apply in this case? I'm not sure. It shouldn't have taken so long if they started with the idea to make a rainbow from early-Apple colors. But perhaps they started with very different ideas, then ended up deciding to go with a simple rainbow design.
 
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citysnaps said:
And do you really believe product development is going to suffer from a one-off tribute to Steve Jobs,
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Taken by itself? Oh boy, no.
In the aggregate however, it is possible. It's no secret that the more decisions someone has to make - irrelevant of how difficult they are - the more the problems. This is true for individuals and companies alike.
 
Amazing what emotion does to the human race.
What was once "What can we accomplish?" has transformed into "Look at what we have all accomplished"...
 
yaxomoxay said:
Taken by itself? Oh boy, no.
In the aggregate however, it is possible. It's no secret that the more decisions someone has to make - irrelevant of how difficult they are - the more the problems. This is true for individuals and companies alike.
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Nice speculation. Based on zero supporting data. Unless you have inside information and data.

I can play the speculation game too - its fun and requires little thought, research, and corroborating information. I'm speculating company events boost worker productivity. I'll also speculate Apple looking into new markets in an era of industry-wide phone and computer saturation is a smart thing to do.
 
PickUrPoison said:
Sure, everyone has had or her own opinion. But like I said, your not liking the arch doesn’t really have anything to do with Apple’s aesthetics; your aesthetics, sure.

My reply was to your statement “i just don't like it aesthetically, and if apple loses its aesthetics what are we going to be left with?”, stated as if your own aesthetics are somehow indicative of Apple losing theirs.
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this has nothing to do with my aesthetics, apple has a very recognizable look/brand. in my opinion, this doesn't fit.
 
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