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A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by naravara »

larrymyers wrote: post #6
pplonski86 wrote: post #3

12000 people in one building - wow!

The one giant wart that makes this whole project depressingly not futuristic: 9000+ parking spaces. The amount of unproductive space devoted to the storage of cars is just mind boggling. Not much has changed in how people get to work. Single occupancy cars all burning fossil fuel and expelling C02. It may not be a fancy spaceship, but the 100 year old building I work at in downtown Chicago has indoor bike parking and…

That's not really up to Apple unfortunately. Cupertino has all sorts of regressive laws about parking minimums and zoning.

I suppose Apple is a big enough wheel that they could have probably rewritten those laws if they wanted to, but they're an electronics company, not city planners. WTH would they know about decent zoning regs?

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by fredley »

strgrd wrote: post #4

> For workers who want to take the café’s pizza back to their pods, Apple created (and patented) a container that lets air and moisture escape so the crust won’t get soggy. Am I correct in saying that this is just a standard to-go box with holes in the bottom?

Seriously, why patent something like this? Why not just give an improved pizza box design to everybody?

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by steverb »

fredley wrote: post #12
strgrd wrote: post #4

> For workers who want to take the café’s pizza back to their pods, Apple created (and patented) a container that lets air and moisture escape so the crust won’t get soggy. Am I correct in saying that this is just a standard to-go box with holes in the bottom?

Seriously, why patent something like this? Why not just give an improved pizza box design to everybody?

Because then you can use it as a bragging point.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by stormbrew »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #2

When I read about the mothership building I imagine how nice it will be for people working there, mostly because of the large central park in the center. It is important to have areas for employees to recharge after long spells of having their heads down working. When I worked as a contractor at Google, I really enjoyed the outdoor environment at the Mountain View campus to recharge during the day. The new Apple camp…

Note that the IL1 campus also has a central courtyard. It's not huge, but it is there.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by tyingq »

fredley wrote: post #12
strgrd wrote: post #4

> For workers who want to take the café’s pizza back to their pods, Apple created (and patented) a container that lets air and moisture escape so the crust won’t get soggy. Am I correct in saying that this is just a standard to-go box with holes in the bottom?

Seriously, why patent something like this? Why not just give an improved pizza box design to everybody?

Could be solely defensive. Maybe the food container biz is highly litigious.
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