A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ

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The Mercury News has an exclusive sneak peek of Apple's planned headquarters (http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24290808/apple-offers-sneak-peek-at-its-new-headquarters?source=rss) in Cupertino, which Steve Jobs personally sought approval for (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/06/08/1428256/apple-plans-new-spaceship-like-campus) in 2011. 'We found that rectangles or squares or long buildings or buildings with more than four stories would inhibit collaboration,' Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said, explaining the motivation behind the so-calledApple Ring (http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=5472406 ). Nice, but if you wanted to hurt the feelings of the Design Gods at Apple, you could point out that, for all its $5 billion glory (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57577903-37/apples-planned-spaceship-hq-will-reportedly-cost-$5b/), what Apple calls 'the best office building ever' doesn't look all that different from an old-school $3.95 6250 BPI magnetic tape reel (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRODPIC-22005.jpg) (still available on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-GRAHAM-1-2-inch-2400-6250-1600-CPI-COMPUTER-TAPE-BPI-/271156388309?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f222e21d5), kids!)."

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