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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 valuearb »

ar15saveslives wrote: post #234
valuearb wrote: post #199

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Yes, pods have walls and table tops. They can also have huge glass walls that slide open, and storage units so they remain neat. Why don't you post a picture of that, instead of spamming this one? Or do you promote open work plans in your day job?

Which image are you talking about? It's a cage without natural light, I don't understand how a glass door makes it better. Actually it's even worse, because it's a depressive as a cubicle, but without "privacy". > Why don't you post a picture of that, instead of spamming this one? Sorry, image urls buried deep inside, I had to use dev tools to extract them. > Or do you promote open work plans in your day job? Promoti…

There is no indication from the photos that they don't have windows, we don't see the direction from where the pictures are taken from. We only see that on one side they have storage.

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/apple-park-new-silicon-valley-...

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by valuearb »

6stringmerc wrote: post #18

The building is quite impressive, which leads me to muse that it's probably the last, and perhaps greatest, Reality Distortion Field[1] achievement of Steve's career. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

Greatest example, the Xerox Parc team knew bitmapped regions were impossible on that eras hardware, but somehow Jobs convinced the Macintosh team to build them in.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by valuearb »

cowardlydragon wrote: post #31

Corporate 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.

Mr. Dragon, if you have time later today can we go hunter/gathering?

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by miranda_rights »

valuearb wrote: post #220

“It’s an obsolete model that doesn’t address the work conditions of the future,” says Louise Mozingo, an urban design professor at UC Berkeley." Everyone should note that Louise Mozingo has criticized the Apple campus from not having large open floor plans where employees can stare at each other across narrow tables and "collaborate" by yelling to one another over their co-workers heads. She simply doesn't get how so…

Can I ask which company it was? I'm making a mental list of companies to try to interview with once I graduate, and having offices sounds amazing.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by freeflight »

"And, of course, the final version is designed to be integrated into the doorframe—heaven forbid you would bolt something on in Apple’s headquarters."

Just like water/electricity hidden in concrete beams I wonder how much of a nightmare maintenance of the building is gonna become? A simple door handle breaking already means replacing the whole door.

I guess it's just in line with their usual product philosophy, just gonna be a tad bit difficult to source a completely new $5 Billion ring if some part of this one breaks.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by valuearb »

miranda_rights wrote: post #245
valuearb wrote: post #220

“It’s an obsolete model that doesn’t address the work conditions of the future,” says Louise Mozingo, an urban design professor at UC Berkeley." Everyone should note that Louise Mozingo has criticized the Apple campus from not having large open floor plans where employees can stare at each other across narrow tables and "collaborate" by yelling to one another over their co-workers heads. She simply doesn't get how so…

Can I ask which company it was? I'm making a mental list of companies to try to interview with once I graduate, and having offices sounds amazing.

This was long ago I'm afraid, not sure if still in business.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by plorkyeran »

andrewem wrote: post #117
Someone1234 wrote: post #107

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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.

Agreed, the idea that Apple couldn't possibly have any influence over municipal policies is laughable. They just didn't try.

There were probably countlessly many things that Apple had to fight with the city over to get approval on, and there are only so many concessions that they can get. An exemption to the parking space requirement was probably not a very high priority to force through.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by pchristensen »

macNchz wrote: post #140
mxfh wrote: post #67

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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

From the linked article re Cupertino: > For a fast-food restaurant, the city demands one space for every three seats; for a bowling alley, seven spaces per lane plus one for every worker. I've read a bunch of articles about the negative externalities of minimum parking requirements, but haven't really seen one explore the why behind these rules. What does it matter to the city if a bowling alley doesn't have enough p…

So the customers of the popular bowling alley don't park in the parking lot of the neighboring businesses. It's forcing every business to play nice with their neighbors, rather than free-ride off of them.

Most mall parking lots are sized for the demand of the busiest day of the Christmas shopping season, and are consequently underused for most of the year.

Re: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

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Post by Markoff »

rtkwe wrote: post #55
Markoff wrote: post #23

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well it's Wired after all, i am not opening it, better provide different source

It's an exclusive there's not another source.

oh well, i can wait until there will be other source

anyway it's here for people who don't wanna support Wired https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZoCP4j...

TLDR: clickbait title, there is pretty much zero photos of actual interior of building

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