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New Drone Video Shows Landscaping Progress at Apple Campus 2
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I'm serious, the original iPhone, the greatest engineering achievement of our times, was built by
"few hundred engineers and designers"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/m...-iphone.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&smid=tw-share&
Now, they have buildings for thousands of people and there is no results to be seen...
I think they simply became too big.
It is obvious you're not an engineer.
They won't let a lot of people inside. They're setting up a Disneyland-style monorail around the outside to address the desire for a closer look.
You clearly have no idea how to run a business or are just trolling. Since the iPhone Apple have moved to annual software updates to all of their devices, annual updates to mobile devices and an expansion of retail stores worldwide. If you think a couple of hundred staff can manage all of that plus the R&D that goes into future products, CPU design, software etc let alone cars etc who knows.
Funny comment on an article about the spaceship campus, a building where no one works yet. And of course there are no results to be seen - they never show their hand for products in existing categories - until they finally unveil them on stage. (They occasionally show off unreleased products in new categories, like the Apple Watch and the original iPhone; one could argue the cylindrical Mac Pro was nearly a new category as well.)
As opposed to non-traversable trails?? Next you're going to tell me that they're putting in drivable parking lots! Seriously, do you guys read what you write?
They'll usher in the crowd around the construction mess, and conduct part of the presentation, before Tim Cook dramatically says something about this "FULLY OPERATIONAL DEATH STAR", and the "campus" lifts off into orbit.
Oh we know you are serious, but we also know you have no idea what you are talking about. If you think Apple has tens of thousands of people around the world doing nothing but trying to annoy you by designing only watch straps and a small update here and there you are deluded.
Just because you don't have regular updates from pokemonandwatchstraprumous.com doesn't mean Apple have stopped working and given up developing.
For a long time now stories on here have said that this next version of the iPhone would be a relatively small update because the 2017 update will be a completely new design. As a company why would they stop developing? It wouldn't happen, maybe if they ran out of money and had serious staffing issues, but they have more money than many governments and more staff than some countries.
Wait and see and stop being such a silly snowboarder.
Because construction worker and chip fabrication engineer are easily interchangeable jobs?
Work on both is proceeding, held up to various extents by external forces. Yeah, I'd like to see new Macs too, but work on the campus isn't delaying that.
At least Apple can build something. Certainly can't seem to build a new Macbook Pro.
Mute the music if you're watching the video.
Did that 30 seconds in lol. Will know for the next one to do it automatically.
Wait, they are building a R&D center? What for? Who is gonna sit there? Strange.
Holy crap that cult, umm I mean Apple campus looks fantastic. I hope they provide complimentary Kool-Aid.
Definitely too big lineups and lacking of visionary leadership. Tim has been great in many regards, but the product lines are now much more complex and generations too similar that the company's approach now to its products is concerning. You would think with all of those engineers that software updates would be more feature rich and less bug prone.
You know what they say, more cooks (no pun intended) in the kitchen doesn't necessarily result in better/faster food. Not to mention the cooks aren't always really the ones that decide what goes on the menu, what ingredients they have to work with, what the recipes are, etc.
To a degree yes, but to continue with your analogy what Apple is doing is adding on another industrial sized kitchen. So now there is more room for more cooks to carry out orders as they come. It's a matter of the soux chefs or even the head chef dropping the ball in not running the kitchen better to make best use of their talent. Just food for thought
This is exactly what almost killed Apple in the 90s. When Jobs came back he talked about that. he cut the computer line to 4 products: consumer desktop(iMac), consumer laptop(ibook), pro desktop(g3 tower), pro laptop (powerbook)
Apple seems to be doing exactly what Jobs didn't want, they are complicating all of their product lines trying to please everyone.
Both the iPhone and iPad lines are becoming bloated. on the iPad side you have 3 sizes two of which have two models. There are three models of iPhone, this year's 6S/6S Plus, the two models from last year and the SE.
The Mac line is the same The Macbook will probably eventually replace the Macbook Air, but right now theres the Macbook, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, and Macbook Pro Retina.
Apple really needs to clean up and simplify their product line to focus on making a few really great products.
But isn't Apple a different company now than they were 20 years ago? With lots more customers with different needs?
You say Apple's product lines are bloated today... but could they really offer only one laptop, for instance? Or one tablet or one phone?
Even two of each product wouldn't be enough.
What you call bloated I see as choice.
Looks like they will have lots of space for their marketing staff..
Seems like that's all Apple has left is marketing staff and all the engineers left!
Can't innovate my ass..
Seems like that's all Apple has left is marketing staff and all the engineers left!
Can't innovate my ass..
The kind of products that sell > $200B a year.
Is there anyone out there that has more business going on?
That's a huge R&D building. Guess we'll be seeing lots of new watch bands and refreshed emojis...