Woman in Apple Park 'Mission: Impossible' video took the long way around
The woman who brought a clicker to CEO Tim Cook in the intro video for the Sept. 12 iPhone event took an especially long detour through Apple Park, according to a designer with the company.
Despite starting near the south entrance of the main ring -- a relatively short distance from the Steve Jobs Theater -- the woman instead appears to have gone northwest, Edward Sanchez noted on Twitter. Even after running across a pond in the right direction, she needlessly veered off again through Caffe Macs before getting on the right track.
"She must be new at Apple Park -- I probably took similar routes in my first week here," Sanchez commented.
The detour was likely meant to show off Apple Park, which was still unfinished at last year's iPhone event and only became the company's official corporate address this February. The complex was in development for several years, and in fact some of its design concepts stem from former CEO Steve Jobs.
The facility should be able to handle some 12,000 workers, and has a number of unusual features such as enormous panes of curved glass, widespread rooftop solar panels, and floor-to-ceiling motorized doors in front of the cafeteria. The Steve Jobs Theater is actually built underground, reachable via a staircase and a corkscrew elevator seen in yesterday's video.
Apple used the event to reveal the iPhone XS and XS Max, as well as the iPhone XR and the Apple Watch Series 4. The intro video explains a since-deleted Twitter post by Cook, captured below, which was originally interpreted as a misreply to a direct message.
At least she ran the whole way, like Tom Cruise does.
Despite starting near the south entrance of the main ring -- a relatively short distance from the Steve Jobs Theater -- the woman instead appears to have gone northwest, Edward Sanchez noted on Twitter. Even after running across a pond in the right direction, she needlessly veered off again through Caffe Macs before getting on the right track.
"She must be new at Apple Park -- I probably took similar routes in my first week here," Sanchez commented.
The detour was likely meant to show off Apple Park, which was still unfinished at last year's iPhone event and only became the company's official corporate address this February. The complex was in development for several years, and in fact some of its design concepts stem from former CEO Steve Jobs.
This is about the route that girl took on the intro video. She must be new at Apple Park - I probably took similar routes in my first week here. pic.twitter.com/6xxxMOGbmF
-- Edward Sanchez (@edwardsanchez)
The facility should be able to handle some 12,000 workers, and has a number of unusual features such as enormous panes of curved glass, widespread rooftop solar panels, and floor-to-ceiling motorized doors in front of the cafeteria. The Steve Jobs Theater is actually built underground, reachable via a staircase and a corkscrew elevator seen in yesterday's video.
Apple used the event to reveal the iPhone XS and XS Max, as well as the iPhone XR and the Apple Watch Series 4. The intro video explains a since-deleted Twitter post by Cook, captured below, which was originally interpreted as a misreply to a direct message.
At least she ran the whole way, like Tom Cruise does.
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I thought the bit was funny. And the tweet now makes it even funnier.
”Sexist!”
”Ageist!”
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StrangeDays said: eightzero said: I didn't look close enough. Maybe the courier (and why if female, it is always a "girl?") In english for whatever reason young men and women are often referred to as boy or girl (“She’s seeing some new boy now”). Even adults in other circumstances — what are men and women called while dating? Boyfriends and girlfriends, despite not being boys or girls or even remotely young.
For whatever reason, you can use ‘guy’ as a generic male pronoun, but ‘gal’ isn’t nearly as common or universal a term for females. I think people are reading way too much into it.
The young lady was great!
And while we're on the subject, and at the risk of the a rebuke from the mods, I specifically noticed during Phil's excellent presentation about the camera tech, he was showing many photographs of portraits of people. beautiful pictures, really well done. The subjects of the portraits were impressively diverse. Apple does a good job of this, and are conscious of it. But I did notice, that Phil most often commented on the "beautiful skin tones" when showing a white subject.