Enough of the armchair quarterbacking! Apple Park is a minor capital expenditure for the company, which is obviously needed administratively and would most likely REDUCE operating costs while INCREASING efficiency.
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It's called an investment in people. Every successful company knows this. Look at Google and their insane amenities.
The team that builds products isn't the same team that built the office.
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Well, as an English major, you should know that words often have multiple definitions but apparently you are in denial of such situations.Look up "give": to freely transfer the possession of something to someone. Buying a good or a service is a trade, where something of value is provided (conveyed, delivered, paid) to someone in return for something else of value. Like I said, I have never given money to Apple. English major here -- one of my few skills
Open the Dictionary app on your Mac, search for "give" and read the fourth definition (yes, there is more than one definition for this word):
• hand over (an amount) in exchange or payment; pay: how much did you give for that?
Source: New Oxford American Dictionary as viewed on macOS 10.12.4
It isn't free but my main concern is that Apple will be distracted.
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I have seen organisations plan for new buildings. It's absurd to think that planning a building, moving into it and debugging doesn't take up the time of everybody. In any case, it is frustrating as a long time Apple customer (as in, I have word processed on a Lisa) when they seem to have dropped the ball on Mac desktops. I hope this builiding improves things, but it might not - think Pentagon. *cough*
Agreed. I think he'd be very proud and wherever he is I hope he's looking down with a big smile in his face!
An amazing achievement. More companies should be as responsible and build headquarters that are environmentally sustainable.
I don't understand what you expect Apple to do. They're already beyond their office capacity. Not investing in their own employees would be very foolish. Happy employees are more efficient and create better products. You'd be even more frustrated if Apple was full of disgruntled employees, but you seem to only think of yourself so that thought hasn't crossed your mind.
Let's not forget that this spaceship was designed under Steve Jobs.
That does look a little silly though...
Yet, I'd give my right leg to work there. Imagine opening day, and getting an office assignment. The awe... It's rare that a worker gets to move into new sparkling office buildings these days. They are usually painted over retreads, waiting for the pink slips and offers to move to Bangalore...
To not make too big of a deal about it, I was addressing the original post where I thought the way the word "give" was used implied that Apple had been "freely" given money by its customers, and that therefore, its customers deserved a say in the use of the money for the new headquarters building. I should have added that clearly, customers have no say about the building, shareholders would, but not customers. I have always thought that the meaning of a word was mostly governed by its context in a sentence, with the dictionary being a guide as to the various possible meanings. So, I quoted the definition that I thought the poster had in mind. If you want to say I appear to be "in denial" about the possibility of multiple definitions of a word, then please, do so. (I can think of a lot worse things about which to be "in denial"!).
Really? Profits from iPhones sales weren't used to fund part of the construction? You mean is being built off the profits of dongles?
Nope. That's a foolish interpretation.
It's about what drives the price of an iPhone (COGS and GPM).
Well, taxes can be offset by other stuff - investments (to some degree).
Mold? In a school?
Yikes!
Doesn't anyone think of the children?
Despite their vocal motto's and goals, their complete business model is based on unequality.
Apple's Business Model: Before and After Jobs 2.0 - Business Model ...
Analysis of the Apple Business Model | Digital Business Models
So what about "Equal opportunities" and "Diversity", if the Board is completely white and mostly male...?
And for every sunpanel they install, the depletion of rare metals continues at a far larger scale:
BBC's Panorama Attacks Apple Over Indonesian Tin - Forbes
Inside Apple Factory and Indonesia's Tin Mud Pits ... - Business Insider
Where Apple Gets the Tantalum for Your iPhone - Newsweek
Apple's Dirty Little Rare Earth Secret - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL ...
Apple's Use Of Rare Earths: Hardly A Secret, Or A Threat - Apple Inc ...
Being perfectly aware of this, they recently announced to end this practice but given the state of their recycling efforts, that's completely beyond their capabilities.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-26/why-apple-won-t-be-able-to-stop-mining-yet
That's very good of them ! Here we agree.
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Numerous complaints about sw/hw quality degradation all around the web, Apple Forums:
http://******.com/?q=Apple+quality+concerns
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7910471?start=0&tstart=0
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-macbook-pro-quality-issues.2017436/
Look at the discouraged products catalogue:
iPhone, iPad, Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy
(if google might get within your reach: ignore Apple-sponsored content)
They almost killed the whole CPU division - the best of its breed and a legend by itself.
All models now are refurbs with old processors, RAM and graphics laughabouts except the latest MacBook (highly criticised for other reasons)
Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for - Medium
They completely fail to recognize the needs of the iPad+ generation: the new generation of youngsters that grew up with iPads but now need MacBook functionality (multi-window, multi-screen, document management, full functional OS) withpout giving up their touchscreens.
Instead of revolutionaizing the market with a true MacBook/iPad convert they come up wit the TouchBar, a one-day fly gimmick. So this is where the market (appreciation) goes:
https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/20...e-buyers-satisfied-ipad-owners/#.tnw_oNg6F5xe
https://betanews.com/2017/04/06/microsoft-surface-apple-ipad-satisfaction/
Microsoft Surface Beats iPad Pro In 2017 JD Power Tablet Satisfaction ...
And this is where the earlier K12 generation leaks away:
Opinion: 8 reasons iPads are losing to Chromebooks in education ...
Apple Loses More Ground To Chromebooks In The Classroom
Report: Apple's iOS and macOS lose market share to Chrome OS in ...
It sure did, but there was always product innovation and -eagerness.
Look at the latest models: We haven't seen any new iPhone model for 4 years or so.
All iDevices look like refurbs, compared to the competition. And quite a few actually are.
I don't know in what pension the designers live, but this is outrageous for the (noted) "most competitive industry" on the planet. Car manufacturers do 5 times better or perish. They come up with numerous innovations in a 100 years-old industry. They developed their own infotainment systems that now pale CarPlay. My offline Volvo voice control is far better than Siri.
The cooperation with IBM to address the business market is laughable - it hasn't lead to anything notable. Making iWorks free is the escape/excuse to stop its development - giving MS Office a free-ride.
The AppleCar: a phantasy of people who forgot how to innovate their own business
Yes, I want companies that test those things and new form factors and either succeed, or temporarily fail.
Not the pseudo-competition with Samsung (throwing truckloads of money into made-up legal fights and bashing) with Samsung actually keeping Apple alive, delivering massive amounts of OLED screens.
Look at Galaxy S.x and iPhone development: Parallellism of a copycats duopoly !
Fine that you know me better than I myself.
But I know Cook and his Cookettes better than those, who contemplate and live by all the window-dressing and corporate spin that cover up their complacency.
They not only milk Jobs' products but silently replace his values and product devotion with intolerable greed, pedantism and self-esteem. With zillions of money and thousands of unused (defensive) patents on the board and the lack of creativity/motivation to really develop that potential.
"Thinking Different" - while doing all the same:
Tim Cook's 'Ballmer-ization' Of Apple - Forbes
Is a Siri speaker coming at WWDC 2017?
Why Apple's iPhone sales slip was a debacle
Why iPhone fixation has allowed Google to steal Apple's show
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Considering cleanup cost over $1 million, there were some people more interested in saving the tax payers money than making sure their (or at least other peoples') kids were healthy. Some people in my community either don't have kids or don't have kids who go to that school, so they didn't want to have to pay for something they didn't personally benefit from. Except the district received a lot of bad publicity meaning less people might want to move to our community, driving down property values.
Don't you think you'll enjoy much better battery life simply by upgrading your phone to one that doesn't have a 5 year old battery? Not to mention the size and iOS efficiency improvement made in newer phones too. By all accounts Android phones begin to slow down and go obsolete long before iPhones do. That might be more by incompetence and fragmentation than by design.
I think the 5k iMac is very affordable compared to other offerings involving a 5k display. I hope Apple never competes on price because that would make them a simple commodity with no reason to innovate new hardware and software. We already see that in the PC commodity market, there is no difference in any of those PCs besides price and possibly customer service.
You're really describing the tech industry more than a "ploy" by a profitable company. If Apple didn't introduce new standards, I wouldn't be interested in their products or their philosophy. That is one of the reasons why I've always avoided Microsoft products. They cater to the lowest common denominator in terms of technology and user base. People say that they're bringing tech to the masses in an affordable fashion but all I see is that they take no chances in order to protect a safe revenue stream. That's not tech, that's an insurance company. Mind you, I'm talking about old MS, not the current one but I still avoid Windows so I have no interest in their latest PC hardware.