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Apple's New Spaceship Campus Has One Flaw -- and It Hurts (bloomberg.com)
Mark Bergen, writing for Bloomberg: The centerpiece of Apple's new headquarters is a massive, ring-shaped office overflowing with panes of glass, a testament to the company's famed design-obsessed aesthetic. There's been one hiccup since it opened last year: Apple employees keep smacking into the glass. Surrounding the Cupertino, California-based building are 45-foot tall curved panels of safety glass. Inside are work spaces, dubbed "pods," also made with a lot of glass. Apple staff are often glued to the iPhones they helped popularize. That's resulted in repeated cases of distracted employees walking into the panes, according to people familiar with the incidents. Some staff started to stick Post-It notes on the glass doors to mark their presence. However, the notes were removed because they detracted from the building's design, the people said.
Not "somehow" -- there's a very specific mechanism: the walls are invisible.
The fix is easy enough, however -- just don't clean the class, and eventually the bloodstains will render the problem areas opaque.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
So... people don't pay attention to their surroundings and somehow it's the building's fault?
What did Reality say to the Apple employee?
You're holding it wrong.
Where's that lady with the big sledge hammer when you need her?
The conjunction of this with the FDA Concussion Blood-test story is too delicious!
Someplace else I had read Apple had planned to place graphics on all the windows to prevent this sort of thing, which has now been moved to a "higher priority". How they could open before that was done, is beyond me...
Just further evidence that the physical world is more and more becoming like software, where you always want to avoid being in the early beta if possible.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
We're just going to have to have our phones tell us when we're about to walk into something. There's no other way to know.
There is a joke here about Windows, but I can't seem to see it.
no one saw that coming...
I'll show myself out now...
Another obvious solution would be ultrasonic sensors embedded in either the phones or the foreheads of the employees.
Ultrasonic sensors might detract from the beauty of the building so clearly they would have to be embedded in the employee's forehead instead.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
No they won't. The only blood will be on the floors where the panes have shattered and fallen down.
No, that's unlikely. I've seen Apple customers and those that work at the Apple stores. They mostly seem to be skinny little hipster types. They don't have enough mass to walk into safety glass and actually break it.
Now if they have a visiting delegation from Walmart, between the mass of the scooters and the passengers, the panes of glass are likely to fall out from the weight on the floor causing the base of the wall to warp.
lol.... *** triggered millennial ***
Cool way to deal with your problems, lash out then cry it out.