Will make a fantastic mall in 5-10 years when the company folds.
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New Drone Video Shows Landscaping Progress at Apple Campus 2
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Are you referring to the iPhone that is yet to be released, you know, the one you know nothing about?
The largest group of engineering manpower at AAPL these days involves managing the financial haul they have scattered about the globe. Hundreds of $billions of assets and debt requiring 24/7 attention. That is what they are up to.
Petty large one is already in the works of being redeveloped right across from it essentially.
I love these videos, Thank You. When I see these videos of the campus taking shape, I'm sad that Steve Jobs isn't able to see his creation take shape.
That sure did look like Minecraft, thanks for pointing it out very interesting. My kids can probably do better in actual Minecraft though lol.
That sure looks like a long walk from one side of the building to the other, unless there's a train within the building..
I'm sure the inside and center will be amazing once it's finished. But a large space ship shaped building is just stupid and ugly. It looks like a Super Villain's lair..
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takes a lot of people to come up with rose gold and neon colors you know
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Watch band R&D guys of course, who else
takes a lot of people to come up with rose gold and neon colors you know
Oh my goodness I couldn't agree with you more. This, the $1bn invested in that Uber Chinese company, the billion or two in vietnam they are talking about, and when was the last time we saw a remotely useful mac come out? Its embarrassing... And also frightening. I was talking with a colleague yesterday about the future of Macs because we are so dependent on them. Right now there's a lot of uncertainty.
But does look like first workers could move into some smaller section by that time.
Full move would probraly still take several months if everything was complete.
My belief is that apple has been playing the long game with their product pipeline and the R&D and manufacturing timing just didn't work out for us this cycle. I still have faith.
Move-in day will be a bitch. All the employees, every single one of them are going to be disoriented for months.
Glancing up from the keyboard and seeing my TV showing a really lovely dreamlike video of Hawaii on the Apple TV's screensaver, I'm thinking that, once the campus is done and all landscaped and pretty, it'd be cool if Apple put their excellent drone/helicopter video team to work making an official flyover/around video of the campus, for inclusion in the screensaver rotation (amongst other possible PR uses).
It'll cost them a bundle upfront, but should pay off quite well over time. In addition, California has had a series of incentive programs to get the general public to install solar on their homes (thus reducing the strain on the state's electric grid); I don't know if they have anything similar for businesses. Besides "free" electricity and it just being generally a good thing to do, they'll also get PR points.
He did. It'll be posted on Apple's page within 12 hours or so of the dedication ceremony. I probably shouldn't have said that but, whatever.
I think if I were a long-time Apple employee and I was there during the opening ceremony, I'd probably lose it and have to go home for the day. Or the week. That guy meant a lot to me and thousands of other people.
I'm wondering if they'll have an in-house Apple Campus Map app, giving hyper-accurate current location (surely they're covering the building with iBeacons), 3D/spatial directions to any office/lab, and even travel times ("given your normal walking speed, leave in 3 minutes to arrive on time at your next meeting on the other side of the ring - it's _this_ way").
Or, they could go wonderfully SciFi retro, and build a whole fleet of those mouse droids from Star Wars - just follow the little black box to your next meeting.
[doublepost=1470517536][/doublepost]Random transport idea, which would be easy to install, but a pain to retrofit. Have a tram track one floor down from ground level, that runs in a big loop under the main round building. But don't have individual trains that come by periodically, just have one continuous long train that occupies the entire track and is continuously moving. Around the ring have periodic stairways that go down to the train level, where you step onto a moving walkway that parallels the train for a few dozen feet (the far end of the walkway empties out onto a small landing that leads to the stairway back up to ground level). Then simply sit down in an empty seat next to you. Then stand up and step back out onto another moving walkway at your destination. Similar to what some Disneyland rides do.