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Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

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Re: Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

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It's beautiful. After many decades of Silicon Valley turning from orchards and trees into strip malls and office parks, it looks like Steve wanted to take a little slice of the Valley and turn it back. The building itself takes up a very small part of the land.

Re: Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

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One can only applaud this. You do wonder sometimes why companies spent so few $$ on relaxing office buildings. Looking into nature increases productivity and well-being; also there are a lot of findings on how to organize work floors for optimal collaboration etc. Most companies are just not interested. Doesn't make sense to me (except for short-term profits).

Re: Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

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It's a simple concept. Make a place that people want to be and they'll come and they'll stay. Steve knew that he leaned heavily on each and every one of his employees, and that they delivered. I speculate that this was his vision on how to extend those people even further, by exciting them about the simple state of being on the Apple campus.

Re: Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

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This building is amazing on so many levels. It's got a very Zen quality to it, the symbolism of the full circle, and to my geek mind it reminded me of the iPod click wheel (wonder if the restaurant area is where the "menu" would be? :-P) It almost feels like last Steve's last One More Thing...
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