Posted on 05/04/2016 5:04:50 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apples new campus is scheduled to be completed in 2017 Apple project rendering
Apple Inc.s new spaceship-like headquarters in Cupertino, California is starting to come together, according to the latest drone footage taken from the construction site.
Drone photographer Duncan Sinfield shot Apples AAPL, +0.22% Campus 2 this week and posted the footage to YouTube. The footage shows the finishing touches on the fitness center, nearly-finished parking structures and progress under way at Apples new R&D facility.
The glass-panel facade on the main building is about half installed, while the carbon-fiber roof is being prepped for solar panels. The curved windows are the largest of their kind in the world, with 900 of the 3,000 windows over 46-feet long, according to Mashable
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The underground auditorium, which will seat around 1,000 people and be used for future product launches, has also been covered, according to the footage.
Drone photographers have been tracking the progress of Apples Campus 2 for well over a year, posting monthly updates of progress and close-up aerial shots.
Watch You Tube of Current Construction Progress.
Last month, a different photographer posted a progress video. The iPhone makers new campus is located one mile away from Apples current headquarters, and is expected to be completed in 2017.
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It’s a beautiful design. Looks like the ring of the Home button on the iPhone.
They make so much money off of devices with designed obsolescence that they ought to spend a little bit on big capital projects that infuse some of it back into the community.
“Underground auditorium”
reinforced bunker?
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It is easy to see how profitable their stuff can be.
My grandson accidentally broke my 15.6” laptop screen, I got a new one for 50 bucks.
An iPhone screen is 100 bucks.
Back in the start of this decade, I read an article that stated the iPhone 4 retailed for $699-750, and had a little under $136 in components and labor.
They have better profit margins then drug cartels.
I don't know where you get the idea that Apple practices "designed obsolescence" but you couldn't be further from the truth. I finally retired my original iPhone from being used AS A PHONE, bought on the day they came out on June 29, 2007, after being handed down from family member to family member just over a year ago, in 2015, after EIGHT years of constant use on the original battery. It was handed down one more time to my three year old granddaughter to be used as an iPod touch, a use for which it is still being used today. . . and still on the original battery. That does not strike me as being designed for obsolescence.
No, it cannot be upgraded beyond iOS 4 or so, and that original battery is now only holding a 50% charge, but for what it does, it works.
My office just retired seven iMacs bought in mid 2007 and replaced them with new iMacs at the end of 2015. . . all of the almost nine years old, and they were all still going strong, running the Yosemite and still capable of being upgraded to El Capitan, the latest OS X operating system, but we elected to do it then because we could use the tax deductions in 2015. We also replaced four MacBook Air laptops bought in 2008, because they could no longer run the latest upgrade to our office software. . . but that might be expected of seven year old laptops. They could run the OS X, but they were too slow for the requirements of 3D radiography rendering. That is not "designing for obsolescence," syncopated.
Frankly, I've never run into an Apple product that was "designed for obsolescence." Not a single one. Can you name one, and give an example of how it was designed to be obsolete? Please?
I don't think Apple would have so many satisfied customers if they did such a practice as you accuse them of.
A lot of people owe their continued employment to Steve Jobs.
People who hate Apple trot out these ridiculous arguments constantly. Then quietly slink away when proved to be full of it.
I’m going to need the burn unit over here. Someone call the ECU. Ow.
I was wrong.
Very nice. Now where are the new products?
Not a problem, Syncopated. A lot of people hear these myths and think they are true. Part of it is that technology improves so fast that the next iteration of any tech is better than the last. That doesn't mean the old is obsolete. I tell clients if it still works, don't toss it just because it can't do "X" unless you absolutely have to have "X" to do your business. . . ala the 3D radiography for the MacBook Airs we had to replace. The old ones were working fine for everything else but just could not handle the much larger files of the 360º 3D slicing through a skull to get very fine detail needed to see what needed to be seen, so they had to be upgraded to one that could.
The beauty of Macs is they still retained quite a bit of value. We sold those seven and eight year old MacBook Airs for several hundred dollars apiece to people who did not need such an esoteric application or the power. Current retail value on them is around $400 even that old. . . but we gave the buyers a bargain.
The new iPhone SE just came out on March 31st. . . and Apple just released the newest upgraded MacBook.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the new iPad Pro in the smaller version that came out on the same day as the iPhone SE. Apple cannot produce enough of either of them to meet demand.
I meant the new “next big thing”. Apple can’t keep living off Iphone n, Iphone n+1, etc.
The Apple Watch was introduced just one year ago plus three weeks . . . and has sold over 18 million so far. That's better than the iPhone sold in its first year on the market. At an average selling price of $500, that's $9 Billion in Revenue, and with an average margin of 40%, that's $3.6 Billion in before tax profits. . . for a new product.
That $9 Billion in revenue is larger than about 60% of the Fortune 500 all by itself.
49 different car badges are now shipping cars with Apple CarPlay installed. That's new since 2014.
Apple Services have increased a whopping 20% in 2015. . . and is now bringing in more revenue than the Mac.
ApplePay started in 2014 and millions of users are now secure in their transactions from any kind of fraud for hundreds of billions of dollars of which Apple takes a very small cut, but very small cuts of hundreds of billions will total up to huge profits before very long.
Apple's new Music Subscription service has just topped 12 million subscribers at $10 per month. . .
In other words those new products are there, you just haven't noticed them.
You also have to realize that there are over 1 billion iOS devices being used in the world right now. . . and over 800,000,000 Apple users who are the most loyal user base in the world. They buy Apple with a retention rate of over 92% for their next purchase. . . while independent purchasing surveys show that half of the buyers of new Apple product are sold to someone new to Apple products. So you are most likely wrong about Apple not being able to survive on iterations of the iPhone.
This one single company, Apple, takes home more than 90% of all the profits in the cellular phone handset industry while all more than 500 other makers combined share the rest. I don't think Apple has anything to worry about for a long time to come.
Hope that makes the stock go up.
Ironically, by the time it’s finished, the company will be over.
You do realize that in this "disastrous quarter" that Apple supposedly had was the second best 2nd quarter in history, which is the record breaking quarter that the anal-cysts are comparing is this current "terrible" quarter to. . . and Apple made more than $10 Billion in profits which exceeded the same quarter's combined profits of Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook, and you are piling on sack cloth and ashes, saying Apple is in dire straights?!?!?
Apple has $236 Billion in CASH and short term liquid assets on hand. . . that's more cash than the United States Treasury has on hand after collecting all the income taxes. I don't think Apple is in any danger of disappearing by next year.
There are "screens" and there are "screens." A generic screen for a $350 laptop is nowhere near the quality of screen put on a TOUCH SCREEN IPS retina display Apple iPhone. . . but in actual fact, I replaced an IPS iPad touch screen for $16.50, including the tools to do the swap out, so you really don't know what you are talking about. A Retina iPhone 5S screen is a little more because the LCD and digitizer is included: $24.50, including tools.
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