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One simple scenario explains everything. Calderon had the phone, and Apple retrieved it during a search he consented to. The police simply threatened to come back with a search warrant if he didn't consent, and allowed him to assume they were …
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Another similar building is the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) building. A British intelligence agency, this place really is locked down. Also a four-story building, but smaller and less attractive (as Lucy Van Pelt would say, blea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit I'm wondering if they are going to allow Apple to close Pruneridge. It was a hot topic at the EIR scoping meeting. I bet they won't let it be closed and they'll make Apple come up with an alternate pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber Seriously, this has got to be one of the longest tails on any thread on this site. As an early post said, Hawthorne's review ruffled a few feathers here, but Appleinsider's discussion of Apple's new camp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Apple's campus is not in an urban environment and does not make surrounding streets more like busy arterial roads...especially given that one of the adjoining "streets" is an interstate highway. The requirement …
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Apt words from Buxton. And I'd say, that so far, Steve Jobs is Earth's quintessential CEO. Here's the full article. http://management.fortune.cnn.com/20...esson-for-ceos
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Hawthorne's review seems to have left the building... so to speak. Yeah--I hope we're done with stuff like the Pentagon, and how to best manage a shopping mall. Quote: Originally Posted by island he…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht So congrats, you found two examples of urban malls that failed I described them as examples of "Mid-20th-century car-focused redevelopment". I mentioned nothing about shopping malls in urban areas or how they "d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht Then give it a try. You claim you can walk right up to the building. Go for it. No street view BS, just do it since you are so adamant it's so accessible. I'll read about you in the washington post. The gr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht He calls it a retrograde cocoon. That's saying the design is bad or wrong. The Apple HQ would fit in the L'Enfant plan in as much as it like a large monument placed in a green space. One of the reasons why the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht The people whining about traffic congestion have to realize there was 9800 parking spaces in the old office park. Some of the buildings, and many of those spaces have been empty for several years (as can be seen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 What makes you think there will be iTunes on Win Tablet? If MS is copying Apple model, then any media or app will come from one source... and that one is unlikely to be iTunes. Vendrazi was asking about the…
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Yikes. The details of Windows 8 and Metro apps are confusing. This article doesn't help. Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider While it's technically possible that Microsoft could allow existing Windows 7 apps to be recompiled to run on ARM…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Maybe within the next thirty years Apple will have released some of the land surrounding the complex and retail, office and living space will develop around the campus... and the replica gherkin will have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit ... and through all of this I feel more strongly than ever that Hawthorne's review is just an opinion... whether it is based on knowledge or not... it's one man's opinion based on theories that is not sup…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nht And these employees already WORK in Cupertino. They aren't adding 13,000 new employees. Some of the employees will relocate from several dispersed locations in Cupertino. Apple will continue to add employees an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit I asked if it was a "failed" paridigm. People might not like it... but has it really failed. Do you really think that Apple and Foster wouldn't have anticipated these concerns. I've already stated that I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit The building itself might be from a past era but does it really follow a "failed" paradigm? Yes; massive isolated single-use buildings, with minimal connections to the surrounding community that are fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro This is CUPERTINO we are talking about. With NONE of the civic urban infrastructure available to support the ecosystems of those places. I mentioned those specific places not as models for Cupertino, but just …
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The design of the new Apple campus is striking, and a big improvement over what's there now. But Hawthorne's critique is valid; the design is retrograde--it’s futuristic only in a mid-20th-Century kind of way. Designed as an isolated island, rather …