Nice, but a rounded pentagon building is nothing impressive these days.
A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple is building 11,000 parking spaces not because it wants to but because Cupertino, the suburban city where the new headquarters is located, demands it. Cupertino has a requirement for every building. http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21720269-dont-let-peo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14067658
Requirements are made to be made exceptions for and Apple had $5b of leverage. They probably just wanted the parking.
Yeah. A simple donation to the local municipality would have gotten this requirement waived. I once heard of a company getting past height restrictions by simply buying the town a few new firetrucks.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, how can you say that? There is absolutely nothing but love put into this building. Jobs spent his last years on earth dedicated to it, to every single last detail, because he wanted a home for apple, a real home. It's easy to be cynical, but I think it's hard and therefore admirable to rise above that tendency when something truly beautiful and genuine comes along. Now I don't blame you for feeling that way…
It's still a car focused suburban office park with an open office floor plan... No amount of love is going to change the fundamentals.
I agree with your car point.
The problem is we current have three choices:
- Cars
- "Company Store"-style housing (e.g. get fired, get made homeless)
- Good public transport.
The third option is obviously the best but it is outside of any single company's control. To get good quality public transport the entire city (or cities) need to be onboard, invest sometimes billions of dollars, and likely run it at a near loss (since most public transport systems lose money).
If someone knows of an alternative not listed above, I'd like to read about it. And, no, automated vehicles aren't an alternative because they don't actually exist in production yet.
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#104Are there any pictures of the workspace for the workers?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really didn't find any pics of the workspace in the article. If it is not much work, can you link to the pic here?
They hid them in slideshows :-) Behold, in new Apple office, depressive windowless cell is called "a pod": https://assets.wired.com/photos/w_1970/wp-content/uploads/20...
This looks like a solitary confinement cell in jail. Just need to change the colors.
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#106Corporate campuses... where CEOs go to live in a fabricated simulation of a world that doesn't exist... where their rapacious extraction of resources, exploitation of people, and destruction of the environment is glossed over in manicured lawns, antiseptically maintained buildings, and secretaries with plastic surgery.
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#107I'd wish they were a bit more futuristic than having 9000 parking spaces. Why not offer buses from where their employees live or other means of transportation? It's easy to say that most people drive, but that's only because everyone always make that the most convenient mode of transportation. With some effort something else could be even more convenient.
Apple is building 11,000 parking spaces not because it wants to but because Cupertino, the suburban city where the new headquarters is located, demands it. Cupertino has a requirement for every building. http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21720269-dont-let-peo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14067658
That's a copout.
Cupertino demands it because businesses have abused public streets before (e.g. relying on public parking for business purposes); if Apple had gone to Cupertino with an actual plan, they may have allowed fewer spaces, but since Apple didn't and just accepted the requirement it is because Apple has no plans to reduce it.
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With so many people working there, I'll be like working in a small(-ish) town. I don't know if the article mentioned it or not, but I would expect that a company of that level would provide some perks, like free snacks. To an employee, it would be like a short stroll to grab a bagel, or whatever people in that region like to eat, with the exception of it being free. One could get used to it, I bet...
Apple makes employees pay for the company cafeteria.
Ok, on a certain economic level it does make sense to not offer free food for thousands of people. I would expect, however, that a decent meal would not cost as much as it would in a downtown restaurant/café. Are there any infos on prices and food quality?
Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Requirements are made to be made exceptions for and Apple had $5b of leverage. They probably just wanted the parking.
Yeah. A simple donation to the local municipality would have gotten this requirement waived. I once heard of a company getting past height restrictions by simply buying the town a few new firetrucks.
Intel did that for their Folsom campus.
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#110> 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?
Would that patent really hold? It's just a round box with 8 holes!
So now (well since 2012), if someone makes a box with holes, it's breaking patent law? I thought only software patents were ridiculous