This new location will no doubt become a landmark, but I'm a little concerned that with the new campus, custom NY store, etc., that Apple may be overspending a little on low-ROI items...
At least Jobs paid for the glass cube himself. I don't think that the campus or NY store are bad ways to spend money - the campus will allow more R&D staff, and more efficiency due to the closing of many small locations. The store should pay for itself in extra sales.
I think that they should have made the floating apple 3D - like a real apple with a bite out of it.
At least Jobs paid for the glass cube himself. I don't think that the campus or NY store are bad ways to spend money - the campus will allow more R&D staff, and more efficiency due to the closing of many small locations. The store should pay for itself in extra sales.
I think that they should have made the floating apple 3D - like a real apple with a bite out of it.
I happened to be there last night at about 2-3 am (don't really remember) and they were hard at work washing the cube's glass and powerwashing around the enterance...
The horrendous pictures my Treo 600 took clearly can't depict how awesome the structure is in person. It was quite amazing...
I happened to be there last night at about 2-3 am (don't really remember) and they were hard at work washing the cube's glass and powerwashing around the enterance...
The horrendous pictures my Treo 600 took clearly can't depict how awesome the structure is in person. It was quite amazing...
-AWAL
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
Don't worry - New York is full of homeless men with spray bottles and squeeges who love to clean glass. They ought to be drawn to this like a moth to flame.
Yeah. But this is a huge white Floating glowing Apple logo!
Heh, reminds me of the SNL iPod/Steve Jobs sketch: "It Floats!".
Actually AWAL's picture makes it look like it hangs (like my Tiger machine), by standard galvanzied pipe it looks like. They ought to have used some thin titanium wire instead for aesthetics.
I will only buy if I can choose a more deserving charity; all bono ever does is bitch about the world bank and international debt, I would rather support charities that cut through the political BS and help PEOPLE...maybe the international red cross.
That's your choice. The only 'bitching' I have heard Bono do is about the 6000 children who die from Aids every single day in Africa. Personnaly I think that is something worth compalining about and FYI the money Bono raises does actually go to the good causes groups like the Red Cross. It's about time we started asking the World Bank and IMF some awkward questions and highlight their inability to solve these problems.
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
the same way Walmart or Meijer do, the same way hotels do with their common areas, you wait till the time of lowest usage, I would guess between 2AM and 5 AM, and clean then. As for rhe cube its self, they could probably just contract the people that clean the buildings arround it to clean it once or twice a week, and an emploee can wipe off any smudges on the doors as part of nightly cleaning.
the same way Walmart or Meijer do, the same way hotels do with their common areas, you wait till the time of lowest usage, I would guess between 2AM and 5 AM, and clean then. As for rhe cube its self, they could probably just contract the people that clean the buildings arround it to clean it once or twice a week, and an emploee can wipe off any smudges on the doors as part of nightly cleaning.
Of course, when I said this, I was only joking. Now it seems the problem has been solved.
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Originally posted by Kickaha
Chris, a_greer: his voice, and yours, on this topic, need to be in AO, not here.
Thenk yew.
Fair enough. I've said my bit. Happy to "debate" in AO/PO if a_greer want to start a thread on it.
Originally posted by Booga
This new location will no doubt become a landmark, but I'm a little concerned that with the new campus, custom NY store, etc., that Apple may be overspending a little on low-ROI items...
At least Jobs paid for the glass cube himself. I don't think that the campus or NY store are bad ways to spend money - the campus will allow more R&D staff, and more efficiency due to the closing of many small locations. The store should pay for itself in extra sales.
I think that they should have made the floating apple 3D - like a real apple with a bite out of it.
Originally posted by e1618978
At least Jobs paid for the glass cube himself. I don't think that the campus or NY store are bad ways to spend money - the campus will allow more R&D staff, and more efficiency due to the closing of many small locations. The store should pay for itself in extra sales.
I think that they should have made the floating apple 3D - like a real apple with a bite out of it.
Further infringing on Apple Corps
The horrendous pictures my Treo 600 took clearly can't depict how awesome the structure is in person. It was quite amazing...
-AWAL
Originally posted by AWAL
I happened to be there last night at about 2-3 am (don't really remember) and they were hard at work washing the cube's glass and powerwashing around the enterance...
The horrendous pictures my Treo 600 took clearly can't depict how awesome the structure is in person. It was quite amazing...
-AWAL
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
Every once and a while, the RDF lifts from me just slightly, and I think "This is consumer fetishism taken to a place I never thought I wanted to go".
Then Cupertino ups the wattage on the feed and I go back to pouring over MacBook unpacking porn.....
Originally posted by addabox
Sigh.
Every once and a while, the RDF lifts from me just slightly, and I think "This is consumer fetishism taken to a place I never thought I wanted to go".
Then Cupertino ups the wattage on the feed and I go back to pouring over MacBook unpacking porn.....
Originally posted by SpamSandwich
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
At some late time when there are less people about. Just because they're open at 3am doesn't mean there are going to be many people there.
Originally posted by SpamSandwich
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
Don't worry - New York is full of homeless men with spray bottles and squeeges who love to clean glass. They ought to be drawn to this like a moth to flame.
Originally posted by rinnin
Yeah. But this is a huge white Floating glowing Apple logo!
Heh, reminds me of the SNL iPod/Steve Jobs sketch: "It Floats!".
Actually AWAL's picture makes it look like it hangs (like my Tiger machine), by standard galvanzied pipe it looks like. They ought to have used some thin titanium wire instead for aesthetics.
Originally posted by a_greer
I will only buy if I can choose a more deserving charity; all bono ever does is bitch about the world bank and international debt, I would rather support charities that cut through the political BS and help PEOPLE...maybe the international red cross.
That's your choice. The only 'bitching' I have heard Bono do is about the 6000 children who die from Aids every single day in Africa. Personnaly I think that is something worth compalining about and FYI the money Bono raises does actually go to the good causes groups like the Red Cross. It's about time we started asking the World Bank and IMF some awkward questions and highlight their inability to solve these problems.
Originally posted by SpamSandwich
...Which brings up another point... how are you supposed to clean it when you're open 24 hrs. a day?!
the same way Walmart or Meijer do, the same way hotels do with their common areas, you wait till the time of lowest usage, I would guess between 2AM and 5 AM, and clean then. As for rhe cube its self, they could probably just contract the people that clean the buildings arround it to clean it once or twice a week, and an emploee can wipe off any smudges on the doors as part of nightly cleaning.
Originally posted by a_greer
the same way Walmart or Meijer do, the same way hotels do with their common areas, you wait till the time of lowest usage, I would guess between 2AM and 5 AM, and clean then. As for rhe cube its self, they could probably just contract the people that clean the buildings arround it to clean it once or twice a week, and an emploee can wipe off any smudges on the doors as part of nightly cleaning.
Of course, when I said this, I was only joking. Now it seems the problem has been solved.
Along with about 25,000 people!
RDF was set to stun! Steve himself flipped the switch.
I have never been so close to the RDF before I think I may have damaged something.
Suddenly I remember all of my Apple ][ commands.
...let's see to print I use PR#6
help me!