“Apple shared some updated photos and information on its spaceship-shaped second campus with employees, which French site MacGeneration managed to get a hold of,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “The photos give a detailed view of the exterior building, and give us one of our first glimpses at its interior.”
“Apple Campus 2 has been in development for more than two years, and is nearing its completion date,” Clover reports. “We’ve seen a series of monthly drone videos cataloguing progress at the site, and as of December, much of the main ring-shaped building is finished, with Apple now working on landscaping.”
“The ceiling of the ring-shaped building is equipped with a series of skylights that will let in natural light, while cutouts in marble walls will house speakers in some areas,” Clover reports. “Close attention has been paid to the smallest of details, and Apple says in just one access tunnel, it’s taken 60 workers five months to lay small tiles on the curved walls.”
More info and photos in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The quicker they can get in there and get comfortable, the better. Only God knows how much this project distracted Apple brass and employees down the line. It could be a contributing reason to why we have such a dearth of Mac updates, no new iPads or even a 4K Apple TV for Christmas.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
A new building is a SAD excuse for such a dearth of Mac updates, no new iPads or even a 4K Apple TV for Christmas.
Apple has lost lots of its mojo to say the least.
true, but nonetheless the edifice is a magnificent tribute to the mind of Steve Jobs.
Pretty sure Apple hasn’t pulled from its pool of engineers to build the campus, lol. That comment is silly..
What have they been doing? Apparently not much work.
Seriously… Anyone spot any desks with new Mac Pros?
You may NOT scorn Der Über Homo!
Botty, you’ve gone off the deep end once again.
Complain about many, many things about Tim Cook (with a great deal of justification), but attacking his gender identity gets you nowhere with anyone except the homophobic few. Maybe it just makes *YOU* feel better about yourself to spew this crap, but it does any cause you have absolutely no good.
Besides, as I have written in the threads on this site, Apple has a very long history of actively supporting virtually all gender identities — going back to the early 80s. (Apple’s official position with regard to this issue may go back further than that, but I didn’t become aware of Apple’s official position until the early 80s.) The fact that Tim Cook disclosed his gender identity has not and does not change Apple’s stance on the issue.
The point is not that he’s homosexual, the point is he is an incompetent globalist boob but since he is homosexual, it’s “okay: that he’s an incompetent globalist boob.
His chosen gender identity is no excuse for his poor actions as the Apple CEO, neither is using it as an excuse to attack him for his poor choices (or lack thereof — making no decision is often as bad as or worse than no decision) as Apple CEO.
I’ve seen no one *ever* say or imply, “It’s OK that he’s a bad CEO because he’s homosexual.” If you can find a *credible* source that documents such a statement, I’d love to see it. Conversely, people need to stop blaming his bad actions on the fact that he is homosexual. Tim Cooks bad leadership is based upon his decisions as CEO not his decisions in his private life.
Besides, being a globalist nearly is required of a CEO of a truly global company. He can’t be predominantly pro USA and effectively act globally to do what is best for Apple worldwide.
Being a “boob” as you put it (which I assume you mean that he’s a bumbling fool) is something that we can debate based upon his and Apple’s business actions.
You either do not understand or are willfully obfuscating the definitions of both identity politics and globalism. Identity politics is defined as placing a priority on one’s gender, race, sexuality or religion over demonstrated ability to produce value. Globalism is the intentional dissolution of national sovereignty and its inherent culture and wealth to the redistribution, by design, to a international banking cartel and unelected governing body.
Tim Cook’s gender identity is “man,” and he did not choose it. He also didn’t choose his sexuality. His species is “human” and he didn’t choose that either. Unless he’s proposed marriage to you, all this is irrelevant.
Yes, it is a sad excuse, but it is likely at least partially true. The distraction of figuring out such a huge move and the cascade effect to middle management (and likely to even lower management) is significant.
However, this is absolutely NO excuse for things like
NO Mac Pro for three years
No Mac mini for over two years
Out of date iMacs
Out of date iPads
Dropping Airport base stations (Extreme and Express)
A behind the times Mac TV
and so forth
Work on a new Mac Pro and a new Mac mini should have started as much as four years ago. The timeline for the design, develop, prototype, produce and ship something like a Mac Pro can be two years or more. Four years ago should have been long before middle management and lower management were affected by the move in any way.
The impact today could be significant as things will be physically moving within the next six months, but the cause of the dearth of products dates back to a time long before now.
I share Shadowself’s disappointment with Apple dropping the Airport wireless routers, but they don’t really belong on his list.
Microsoft used to sell wireless routers also, back when high-speed internet was one Mbps, and before there were many companies manufacturing wireless routers for consumers. The wireless router was not in Microsoft’s long-term plans. It was just a temporary product to fill the gap. (I found that out from Microsoft directly.) Microsoft dropped the wireless router as soon as the industry began supplying them.
The Airport routers probably have the same backstory and are just overdue for being discontinued. There’s really no loss for us. Because of protocols and standards, there’s little extra value that Apple can offer us in a router these days—other an Apple logo on a sleek case that no one sees, because we keep out of sight.
Herself and I were diversionary effect of The Mother Ship a year ago. I maintain that it’s a distraction factor right now at Apple that’s not benefiting we users.
ahem, we were DEBATING the diversionary effect…
Yes, exactly. Some other commenters may want to consider that perhaps Apple’s problems of late are exactly this: management. That no one person has to answer for each product line, in a total bottom line sort of way, might be what is missing. Steve Jobs was that man and that part of his oversight has apparently not been assumed by anyone. Cook looks at the companies bottom line and iPhone sales have allowed for this void to go on uncorrected. Jobs looked at the user’s experience bottom line and the P&L took care of itself.
I think the various articles and comments that Apple is operating as if it is on a shoestring budget run by 5 guys from NEXT, is spot on. The VPs are all in charge of individual pieces of the whole final product the consumer actually buys. Nobody is in charge of that final product. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I think some restructuring is in order.
Questions? Was Forstall more valuable than we knew? Has Eddy Cue done anything right?
I wonder what kind of manufacturing facilities could have been built with that money?
And now for the insults …
The same kind of relative $5 billion Apple chump change that built the Spaceship can also build amazing manufacturing facilities. No worries, there’s plenty left over (and then some) to do whatever Apple wants to do.
In Apple’s case they can have their cake and eat it too.
No decent monitor for the new MBP — LG not released in the UK, so no USB-C monitor with FaceTime camera from ANY manufacturer!
Anyone who has moved house knows just how much time it takes to pack up and go. Even you are a mega-billion company, and can afford a company to take care of the move, there must be a zillion decisions that have to be taken by the staff to make it happen in a coordinated fashion.
Maybe it’s a weak excuse but it could be contributing to the dearth of new gear…
They must be using Mac HW engineers as movers as there is not one damn bit of movement on Desktop Macs. The Gizmo Bar on the MacToy Book took about 30 seconds of work.
I am hoping that once they do move into the new building that innovation picks up again, or those buildings will be a waste of time and money, and tarnish the memory of Steve Jobs.