Im just amazed that there are people living so close to the headquarters, look at the condos/houses in the corner of the photo.
Apple was unsuccessful in buying that property, but even without that on the block, there are still houses across the street. The cost will be high, but it's feasible for many to walk or ride a bike to work.
Im just amazed that there are people living so close to the headquarters, look at the condos/houses in the corner of the photo.
It's a city. What did you expect? Rolling hills, grasslands, and cattle?
I'll add my voice to those saying the tree shortage is silly--because Apple knew it would need them years and years ago, and they have legendary supply-chain management. This is yet another contractor failure.
Im just amazed that there are people living so close to the headquarters, look at the condos/houses in the corner of the photo.
It's a city. What did you expect? Rolling hills, grasslands, and cattle?
I'll add my voice to those saying the tree shortage is silly--because Apple knew it would need them years and years ago, and they have legendary supply-chain management. This is yet another contractor failure.
1) He doesn't mean in the city. He's talking about that apartment complex, and he's right. You aren't usually going to find a massive headquarters with a privately owned apartment complex that appears to be grandfathered onto the same property. While technically suburban areas, they are done less in neighborhoods, and preferred in industrial parks.
2) Someone said Apple wanted 9yo trees and Steve Jobs appealed to the Cupertino board less than 6 years ago. Even if we say Apple could've pre-purchased the requisite trees for the future project, would it have been an 3 years earlier? Did they have plans at that point? Did they even own the HP property 9 years ago?
Most of the 9,000 trees won't be fruit trees. That's incorrect. Apple is only planting about 600 fruit trees. The majority of trees will be native California species such as oak and conifers.
Well, those contractors are lazy. Everybody new years ago, even when Steve Jobs was alive presenting the project that the project will require a lot of trees. They failed to plan ahead. Simple as that.
This has nothing to do with contractors being lazy. Nurseries only have so many trees that are a certain age like Apple wants. Most nurseries don't carry a lot of trees that are like 6 plus years in age. Even if this was planned 5/6 years ago, it was always going to be difficult to get thousands of trees that are aged a certain year, especially the species of trees Apple wants.
Well, those contractors are lazy. Everybody new years ago, even when Steve Jobs was alive presenting the project that the project will require a lot of trees. They failed to plan ahead. Simple as that.
Tree don't grow that fast. A six year old tree is very small. Apple needs thousands of large caliper trees. The project was only announced six years ago, so even trees planted at the moment he showed the proposed campus to the city council, the trees would not be big enough.
All those trees will provide a lot of natural air conditioning for the campus.
That is not how it works at all.
Unless Apple plans to harvest that fruit before the bugs and birds get to it, the ground will be littered with rotten fruit over the course of a month and the primary complaint will be the smell of rotting fruit.
Like I actually think it's rather creative that they choose fruit trees, but anyone who has lived with fruit trees on their property will tell you that you have to prune them to get fruit, and you have to pick the fruit before it falls otherwise the ground will be absolutely disgusting in a matter of days.
Also it takes about 10 years for a tree to grow fruit (most commercial fruit growing trees are actually chimera's.) So it's also very likely that under the right conditions those trees will actually grow fruit, but I somehow doubt California is going to be wet enough to ever produce good fruit unless they are taken care of.
All those trees will provide a lot of natural air conditioning for the campus.
That is not how it works at all.
Unless Apple plans to harvest that fruit before the bugs and birds get to it, the ground will be littered with rotten fruit over the course of a month and the primary complaint will be the smell of rotting fruit.
First thing I thought of when I read about the fruit trees. They are the highest maintenance of all landscape plants. I'm sure they expect people will eat the fruit, but seems doubtful.
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I'll add my voice to those saying the tree shortage is silly--because Apple knew it would need them years and years ago, and they have legendary supply-chain management. This is yet another contractor failure.
2) Someone said Apple wanted 9yo trees and Steve Jobs appealed to the Cupertino board less than 6 years ago. Even if we say Apple could've pre-purchased the requisite trees for the future project, would it have been an 3 years earlier? Did they have plans at that point? Did they even own the HP property 9 years ago?
Nearby residential real estate likely made some nice gains in valuation. It doesn't hurt that Cupertino has excellent public schools and low crime.
Unless Apple plans to harvest that fruit before the bugs and birds get to it, the ground will be littered with rotten fruit over the course of a month and the primary complaint will be the smell of rotting fruit.
Like I actually think it's rather creative that they choose fruit trees, but anyone who has lived with fruit trees on their property will tell you that you have to prune them to get fruit, and you have to pick the fruit before it falls otherwise the ground will be absolutely disgusting in a matter of days.
Also it takes about 10 years for a tree to grow fruit (most commercial fruit growing trees are actually chimera's.) So it's also very likely that under the right conditions those trees will actually grow fruit, but I somehow doubt California is going to be wet enough to ever produce good fruit unless they are taken care of.