Latest Apple Park flyover highlights landscaping push, campus-wide construction
New drone footage of Apple Park reveals that major landscaping work is underway within the main courtyard, and that while diminished in places, campus building construction is still very much active.
The courtyard is now home to a large tree grove as well as tall mounds of dirt, a video by pilot Duncan Sinfield shows. Apple Park is eventually expected to host about 9,000 trees -- some of them fruit-bearing, in an homage to the region's old orchards.
Other portions of the video show that while many buildings are effectively complete, construction is still ongoing along Tantau Avenue, and even around the "spaceship" itself. Tantau was reportedly closed to vehicles for much of July for the sake of completing the Visitor Center, which recently began hiring.
While at least some staff are already working at Apple Park, the rough state of the campus suggests that a full transition from 1 Infinite Loop -- including executives like CEO Tim Cook -- may take many months. The company's old headquarters should eventually centralize some of its cloud teams.
Apple is likely eager to complete the Steve Jobs Theater by September, given an anticipated "iPhone 8" announcement and other product debuts.
The courtyard is now home to a large tree grove as well as tall mounds of dirt, a video by pilot Duncan Sinfield shows. Apple Park is eventually expected to host about 9,000 trees -- some of them fruit-bearing, in an homage to the region's old orchards.
Other portions of the video show that while many buildings are effectively complete, construction is still ongoing along Tantau Avenue, and even around the "spaceship" itself. Tantau was reportedly closed to vehicles for much of July for the sake of completing the Visitor Center, which recently began hiring.
While at least some staff are already working at Apple Park, the rough state of the campus suggests that a full transition from 1 Infinite Loop -- including executives like CEO Tim Cook -- may take many months. The company's old headquarters should eventually centralize some of its cloud teams.
Apple is likely eager to complete the Steve Jobs Theater by September, given an anticipated "iPhone 8" announcement and other product debuts.
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I reckon everyone should be able to see natural daylight.
Yes, we understand it's difficult to move lots of staff in...
And it's difficult to continually redefine words like "completion",
but, heck, at least they've still got you helping them!
It’s like saying the house you had built isnt complete until you entire family moves into it. That just doesn’t make any sense.
But kidding aside as I've said in the past if they weren't allowed they would have been shut down years ago. That hopefully answers your and anyone else's question on this topic that may be thinking of this.
That being said, about a week or two ago, there was an article about Apple having security specifically for stopping these drones flying over Apple Park. So I wonder if either Dunkin and Matt (the other person who does this) are getting permission from Apple, or if they'll be shut down too? If Apple isn't doing their own recording of this stuff it would be a shame to shut down Dunkin and Matt. They're the ones who started all of this IMO and others just did the "me too". Someone needs to document the building of this amazing place.
For the record, I'm claiming the building isn't completed until it's completed, whether even a single person ever works there or not.
Any more than it relies on people moving into a house for that to be complete. The two are unrelated, despite your sophistry.
And we're now over a year and a half, at minimum, beyond Apple's earliest "completion" estimate.
No doubt there are perfectly legitimate reasons for that to be the case, but I can't think of ANY legitimate reasons
to act the Apple apologist, blandly, relentlessly, repeatedly,
and in the face of facts you feel comfortable dismissing by redefining even the simplest terms.