“Apple’s new headquarters is no simple office building,” Dante D’Orazio reports for The Verge.
“Yes, it looks like a UFO,” D’Orazio reports. “And, yes, it is estimated to cost close to $5 billion dollars.”
“Just a few months ago, the buildings appeared to be in little more than their primordial stage,” D’Orazio reports. “Now, the latest aerial drone video of the Cupertino, CA, campus shows that glass and solar panels are starting to be put in place, and buildings look to be topped off.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Wonder if they’ll be able to get in this year or have to wait until 2017?
I feel very uneasy about these drone videos. It’s interesting to see, but I don’t think it should be allowed, there’s safety and privacy issues galore with them.
Normally I would think you’re right. But I’m pretty sure that whoever the flyover got Apple’s permission.
Yeah, they should use helicopters; that would be a lot safer.
It would be in so much as helicopters are subject to greater regulation of use and you can’t just walk in off the street and fly a helicopter, whereas with drones any idiot can get one.
Steve would never have approved the type face that used.
That building is an overall beautiful piece of art; amazing how we humans can build such marvels…
A lot of work to be done if that is to be complete this year. The scale is just enormous.
Is the “underground auditorium” in the middle of the space ship? Or located somewhere else on the property – outside of the space ship?
I think it is off the side somewhat. Perhaps near to the parking structures?
Jesus Christ, that sound track is obnoxious.
-jcr
I think the whole safety thing on drone is overblown. They’re small and superlight, no different than a bird and there’s millions of birds
I tend to agree with you, except that birds, being life forms, aren’t regulated, but powered flight is. Also, military drones have a high kill ratio compared with birds. Unless, of course, one cites Daphne Du Maurier’s 1952 book The Apple Tree which contains the novelette The Birds, chillingly brought to the silver screen in 1963 by Alfred Hitchcock. All poppycock, of course, as Mother Nature couldn’t possibly rebel against humanity’s abuse of Her, right? We wish.