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Tim Cook Visits Apple's New Austin Campus, Says 'Exciting' Products Coming
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Why does everyone assume that the CEO of Apple (or any company) is always going to be carrying around a prototype of the company's next product?
I wonder why people automatically think it's even a phone. It could be anything.
By exciting I hope he means a new Mac mini...
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By exciting I hope he mean a new Mac mini...
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By exciting I hope he mean a new Mac mini...
Definitely a bigger phone in his pocket. Maybe an M8 or Nexus 5?
Is that a 6" iPhone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
As a fellow Bay Stater, I'll venture a guess.
Some of think or assume that the company big wigs would have access to the latest and greatest for testing and real hands on experience. I remember reading that the first iPhone prototypes had plastic screens as was common at the time and Steve found that it got all scratched up with keys in his pocket, leading to the use of glass. At some phase of development, they would try out the prototypes and evaluate them, make suggestions, yell at someone, etc.
Because the iPhone 6 is just around the corner and he wouldn't be carrying an iWatch in his pocket.
I think it would have been better if he had gone there and said they had a bunch of boring stuff in the pipeline.
As if that was hard to do! Look at the absolute nothingness that is this story: Tim Cook went to Austin. So what? I understand Apple opened their new campus there, but perhaps that would have been a more interesting story -- as has already been asked in this thread: what do they do there that they can't do in Cupertino?
There is zero substance in the story, so there will be next to zero substance in the ensuing forum thread. Would you expect something different?
Cue the "Tim Cook farts", "Tim Cook takes a dump", "Tim Cook orders spinach polenta for lunch" jokes...
Vapid.
Because Steve Jobs did.
More than once when asked about iPhone 1, he said "It's right here in my pocket"
Oh man, I noticed that I was 15 minutes away from the campus when I was in Austin this past weekend. Really wanted to go take a peek at it! Sadly I can't drive and was stuck in a hotel room the whole time.
Would have been cool to see him walking around.
Would have been cool to see him walking around.
Would be nice if Apple staggered releases of new products throughout the year. It's rough to have to wait an entire year and then have new iPhone, iPad, MacBooks, iMacs all come out in the same quarter.
Because the iPhone 6 is just around the corner and he wouldn't be carrying an iWatch in his pocket.
It could be a case for his glasses.
We need one in Florida
Not as big as the Cupertino or Austin campuses, but they're at least branching out here in Florida, too. I think there are Apple offices somewhere in Melbourne, FL, as well.
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2014/04/apple-quietly-building-out-orlando-engineering.html
It's more fun to think it was the iPhone 6 instead of a case for his glasses.
It is a case. It's this one. Or one similar.
https://www.speert.com/closeup.cfm?...eglass Cases&readingpower=&sort=498&keywords=