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A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ
theodp writes "The Mercury News has an exclusive sneak peek of Apple's planned headquarters in Cupertino, which Steve Jobs personally sought approval for in 2011. 'We found that rectangles or squares or long buildings or buildings with more than four stories would inhibit collaboration,' Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said, explaining the motivation behind the so-called Apple Ring. Nice, but if you wanted to hurt the feelings of the Design Gods at Apple, you could point out that, for all its $5 billion glory, what Apple calls 'the best office building ever' doesn't look all that different from an old-school $3.95 6250 BPI magnetic tape reel (still available on eBay, kids!)."
Well, I wonder why R&D is shuffled off to the rectangular buildings away from the glorious ring.
Why don't they like those engineers?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Headquarters
All all glass building with lots of computers and the terminals with the world's secrets flashing across. An interesting concept.
Slashdot Beta should die a painful death.
Samsung: Korean HQ
Gates Foundation: Seattle HQ
Microsoft:Redmond Campus
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
doesn't look all that different from an old-school $3.95 6250 BPI magnetic tape reel
Or a ring, bracelet, flying saucer, hoola hoop, donut, or a million other things that are round. What is your point?
News flash! Round things look like other round things! How could Apple not have seen this coming!?!?
The Pentagon? No, but you're thinking is the right general direction: Another agency did it first.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell