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robertwalter said:

What is below the big skylights about every 45°?  Stairwells?

Yes, that is most likely.

If there is a major catastrophe that knocks out the building power, at least there's a chance that ambient light will be sufficient to guide employees to stairwells to exit the structure.

Soli said:

1) Matthew did an outstanding job. Any idea what program he would use to edit the video and the text overlays?

2) Based on still incomplete look of the Steve Jobs Theater and the grounds between it and the parking garages, I'm guessing that a March/April iPad even will not be held at this facility. Oh well, it'll happen soon enough.

Apple already stated that the auditorium would be done later this year. Clearly the venue isn't finished and there is zero landscaping around the lobby. This would be a horrible place to hold a March/April press event, with mounds of dirt.

tjwolf said:

The 'P' in P/E ratio stands for 'P'rice not profit.  It's hard to take anything you wrote seriously when you can't get that basic fact straight.

I don't think most tech writers understand anything about the financial market which is why they write about the tech market and not the financial market. It seems like every three months they screw up the ex-dividend date and its implications, not having learned anything since the last screw-up they committed just three months prior.

For that matter, I don't think most commenters have any idea about the financial market either. A.) you see insanely ridiculous proposals on how Apple should run their business and B.) there's a lot of basic misinterpretation of basic financial statistics. People who don't know the difference between revenue and profit. Stuff like that.

Sorta dilutes the value of sites like AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cnet, Macworld, etc. if basic concepts aren't correctly represented. We're not talking controversial interpretations of some random rumor, just basic financial stats.

rogifan_new said:

macxpress said:

rogifan_new said:

Has Apple said which teams are moving into this new campus? I thought I read somewhere that Eddy Cue's iCloud team which is spread out right now would all be moving into the current campus.

I haven't heard anything, but I do wonder if those who are not moving into the new campus will cause a ruckus over it. I can see some people getting pissed because they have to either stay in the current Apple Campus on Infinite Loop, or are moving from the San Francisco area to the Infinite Loop Campus vs Apple Park. 

Yeah I'm sure some employees will be bummed if they don't move to the new campus. That New Yorker article on Jony Ive said said the design teams would be occupying parts of the 4th floor in the new campus.

The word on the street is that most Apple employees already know if they are moving or not to Apple Park. Since the project was announced, there is likely a fairly good understanding of which groups would likely be relocated to the new building: the same engineering teams who are occupying the best commercial real estate in and around Infinite Loop.

It's given that certain groups will be going to the new building: iPhone hardware engineering, iOS software engineering, Mac hardware engineering, macOS software engineering and iPad hardware engineering. Those are the people who design the products that cover 85% of Apple revenue.

Since Apple TV and Apple Watch, their respective operating systems are so closely tied to iPhones, Macs and their operating systems, I suspect that Apple TV and Apple Watch teams would be prime candidates to also eventually move to Apple Park.

Where the remaining space will go is unknown but it is likely that teams that work on more minor services and software (Apple Maps, iWork apps) will probably not go to the new building, but will find new digs closer to Infinite Loop in the spaces vacated by core engineering groups. 

If you work for Apple in San Francisco, Austin or Tel Aviv, you aren't getting a desk at Apple Park because if you were, you'd already be in Cupertino.