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Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple has been building its giant new "spaceship" campus in the company's hometown of Cupertino, California, since December of 2013, and since then fans have paid obsessive attention to the structure. It gets buzzed by drones constantly, and the most popular YouTube videos of the building in progress have amassed well over half-a-million views apiece. The company announced today that the campus will be open to employees starting in April and that the building and environs now have a name: Apple Park. Apple says that moving the 12,000 employees who will work at the campus will take more than six months, and landscaping and construction on some buildings won't be done until the summer. The new campus mostly replaces the university-style Infinite Loop campus Apple has used since 1993, though Apple has said that it will also be keeping the older buildings. The new campus' cost has been estimated at around $5 billion. Apple will also be naming one space on the new campus after its founder and former CEO -- the Steve Jobs Theater will replace the current Town Hall event space that Apple sometimes uses for company meetings and product announcements, and it will open "later this year." The new space will be much larger (it will seat 1,000, compared to roughly 300 for the Town Hall), and the larger space will presumably allow Apple to launch more of its products on its campus rather than having to rent expensive event space in downtown San Francisco. The company is also moving its Worldwide Developers Conference closer to home this year -- it will return to San Jose after many years at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
I have said it before: the ring is a massive Reality Distortion Field Generator.
Apple needs it more than ever, now that Jobs has been dead for five years.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Isn't sinking 100s of millions into construction of a new corporate headquarters one the Fucked Company(tm) 6 common signs that a company is about to implode?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
That my friend is FAKE NEWS. Stop watching Fox. It rots what little brain you have left.
Big news is that Apple thinks they will still be launching products.
Apple Park is a failure from the start, just like NASA's Shuttle-C, X-33 and Skylab.
I have said it before: the ring is a massive Reality Distortion Field Generator.
As per usual Apple is late to market with an inferior product.
Apple Haters have been carrying around a small portable reality distortion generators with them for years that allows them to see Apple's growth as retraction. They appear to have a boundless power source and are so strong no reality is able to break through no matter how discordant the internal view becomes!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When the coming zombie hordes simply slide off the smooth exterior of the walls or flow around it like a pebble in a stream, you will be begging to be let inside the true sanctuary city Jobs has built.
Guess who will be sad *they* didn't spend $40 on IAP that year...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I drive by this thing every day, it's big but not that big (at least how I perceive it). I read it is the size of the Pentagon (haven't researched or RTFA) but some reason the DOD building appears larger, or is it the shape? Also the Apple Saucer is surrounded by parking garages and walls.
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"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Brilliant. It's not part of any country, I guess, so no tax money gonna be paid anywhere.
That's a terrible name for a spaceship. Seriously, "Apple Park"?
They should change it to something better, like "Very Little Gravitas Indeed".
There are no doors
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
No, Apple is not located anywhere near downtown San Francisco.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Should have built a tower. That could be reused.
Apple Park - did you mean Orchard?
The R&D building is separate and much, much smaller. That does not bode well.
More's the pity.
I want a full-sized Mac Pro tower with two ethernet ports, room for at least four drives and PCI cards. The iPad Pro may be great for people who live entirely in Google docs, but not for the rest of us.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
There isn't a campus nearby named Eros is there?
It hardly looks anything like an 80's rock album cover.
ELO, Boston, Kansas and Journey did it better, stardust.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I was also mulling this over in relation to the movie World War Z where (spoiler) zombies piled up against a wall until they got over the top...
Even against an angled wall that would work after a while I imagine, as you packed in enough tipped over zombies. But against curved and angled wall it seems like it would take much longer to work as most of the mindlessly piling on zombies would slide to the sides, or possibly even the force of new incoming zombies pushing the zombies up against the surface of the curve to either side. It would be really interesting to simulate.
I think you are right hat against Walking Dead zombies, it would tip them over and they wouldn't be able to exert any significant force on the wall. Indeed a pack of them would be helping to hold up a wall canted outward!
A new innovation for Zombie movies could be some kind of "stiction" zombie, that could attach to a surface, chemically bond, then pull instead of mindlessly ramming...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Which member of the Park family, is Apple?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Apple Court, right? cuz its the core headquarters, yeah?
Apple Park is a failure, as in it has the qualities of literal failure. Not that it is currently failing and there could be potentially some way to change its state.
I was under the impression that modern architectural aesthetics had moved away from all-glass buildings since it turns out that they're not as energy efficient as was claimed back in the 70's and 80's. They are, I believe, cheaper to build than typical concrete and steel structures. Anyway, roundness not withstanding, this building and the theatre already look a little dated to me.
Yep, about a 10 fold cost overrun. That's one very expensive office building.
The R&D park is the Donut hole.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Its an annular campus. Think, think...
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Or iOrchard?
as the number of Americans it has working in it.
You posting requirements of an individual on slashdot to have accomplishments that exceed that of an organization of thousands of engineers is a pretty high bar.
It has always been "The Donut". It will always be "The Donut".
<homer> Mmmmm... Forbidden Donut... <drool> </homer>
Looks like they missed the chance to call it the "Apple Orchard".
You'd think a company so focused on marketing could come up with something snappier than "Apple Park".
Hell, even "The Apple Core" would've been better...
Isn't sinking 100s of millions into construction of a new corporate headquarters one the Fucked Company(tm) 6 common signs that a company is about to implode?
No.
Not if those 5 Billion come from the 240 billion in cash that you have accumulated in earnings but selling product with revenues up to north of 30% (iPhone raw earnings are between 200$ and 250$ per device. Which is why Huawei, Google and Co. cry themselves to sleep at night.). Then 5 Billion for an attempt to build the worlds best office building is a nice neat little extra for the crew.
If you're a startup running on high burnrate spending other peoples money with no income to show for though, that's an entirely different story.
Then building a flashy new building is usually a sign that things are going to turn south soon after. I just finished reading "Boo Hoo", a first hand account of the 'rise' and fall of boo.com of the hayday of Dotbomb times. That is a prime example of what your talking about. Apple is just about the exact opposite of that.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
...aren't user replaceable.
call it the "Glory Hole" .
That's the best name they could come up with?
"Apple Park" is a sure sign that Apple has succumbed to the safe, banal, uninspiring, corporate-y bullshit that nearly did them in the last time Jobs left.
They'll be releasing a PowerBook 5300 redux any day now.
IL1 is also a donut. Referring to the donut doesn't differentiate between IL1 and IL2.
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I feel that this was a huge miss....