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New Model Offers Detailed Look at Apple's Upcoming 'Spaceship' Campus [Updated]
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The whole building continually rotates. You just hop on when your office comes around.
Reduced rent expenses for all the other buildings that Apple is using in the region. Reduced wasted salary for all the time employees book traveling between said spread out buildings and sites.
You clearly have not watched the movide, because if you had you would know that the mothership never enters the atmosphere and the earth gravity (like it never did on that movie)
We expect you to know this stuff before you expect other people to know this stuff
Apple should have statues of all of their competitors who no longer exist, so that people are reminded of how fragile corporations are without good leadership and talented workers.
Oh, look over there! Is that Blackberry?
Apple uses an overhead chain and modified meathooks for transportation. That way, 50 years down the road, the building can be reused to make Soylent Green.
I don't know. I can see the resemblance between the 2nd photo and this.
Did that screencap come from a VHS tape?
Why does everything have to benefit shareholders?
Currently Apple has their Main campus and then rents several surrounding building, this new building will unify all those surrounding buildings and put 12,000 of Apple employees into one building.
Side Note:
I found this online, thought it was funny
Any large building could do that.
The precision lighting, seamless gaps, curved glass, extra smooth concrete, and other obsessive details have already led to a multi-billion dollar cost overrun and will guarantee excessively expensive maintenance forever.
As a shareholder, I hope this building isn't Apple jumping over a shark made of hubris.
As a shareholder, I find it very beneficial. The working environment plays a significant role in creativity, effectiveness, and efficiency. People are far more productive and communicate better when they work alongside their peers. It's a large campus, but everyone will be fairly close by.
Biggest problem I see is the bumper-to-bumper traffic on that freeway and intersections. Having flexible workhours will help somewhat, but that's one heck of a lot of people in one place at one time.
I feel bad for employees who have to walk what seems like a pretty far distance, from the parking garage to the building every day. Also a double whammy if your desk is on the opposite side of the building.
The Mother ship was the one in orbit which they uploaded the virus to with the macbook and detonated the nuke
will Carl iCahn ask to get his own office in the spaceship ?
you know, right next to Tim's so he could no longer dodge his calls or refuse to have dinner
you know, right next to Tim's so he could no longer dodge his calls or refuse to have dinner
Spaceship is more then a rocket! It's supposed to travel across galaxies. They usually get build in space
They don't usually exist...
The multi-level parking structures at the bottom look like they take up more far space than the building.
It must be expensive to make them earthquake-proof as well (?).
Apple is spread out into lots of leased space in Cupertino and into some buildings in Sunnyvale and other nearby cities. Apple should be able to dump alot of leased space for what they actually own with this consolidation. Pretty sure there are shuttle buses and lost productivity shuffling between sites going on now.
I don't think they plan to let go of the "Infinite loop" campus and the other buildings near by that complex. As some folks empty out of that, the leased folks can also go into those if that makes more sense. Some groups are much bigger now and probably need a bigger facility to keep the subgroups closer to one another.
Not sure if that large solar grid is going to isolate them from PG&E bills completely but it another example what they can do with their own load as opposed to leased buildings they do not have that kind of control over.
The reality is that Apple is now a bigger company than it was. So need more office and R&D lab space. HP's old campus they bought was largely empty anyway. Apple has the means to put that land back into productive use. Apple could continue to lease and poor lots of "stockholder" money into the local commercial real estate companies pockets, but what does that buy stockholders?
