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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.
Where's that lady with the big sledge hammer when you need her?
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 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.