If you read my tech blog, you know I mention Apple products on a regular basis. I am not an Apple fan boy, but their products are good and do make the news quite often.
In case you have never seen it, this photo is of the main entrance to Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, CA. It was here that the late Steve Jobs worked his magic to create the iPhone, the iPad, the iMacs and more. Now, the company is run by Tim Cook.
The official address of this building is One Infinite Loop. And of course there is much more to the Apple Campus than just this building. It stretches for quite a ways.
I took this photo on a weekend when there were few employees around. But there were several Apple fans there photographing the place…just like me. Actually I was all over Silicon Valley that day seeing the sights. I started out visiting my old University, San Jose State. It is now in the heart of Silicon Valley, which of course did not exist as such way back then. The most advanced technological product I used in college was a typewriter.
Silicon Valley now begins in Oakland, then runs 50 miles south on the east side of the bay, to San Jose, then north 50 miles on the west side of the Bay to San Francisco. Of course it includes several peripheral areas along the way like Livermore in the East and Santa Cruz in the west. In other words, it is very big, even though it is just a place in the mind with no official boundaries or legal status. It is the heart and soul of the technology world.
As for Apple, they are currently building a new headquarters, also in Cupertino, on 176 forested acres. It is nicknamed, “The Apple Spaceship” as it is perfectly round ring that will contain 2.8 million square feet. And it does look like a spaceship (click here to see the architect’s renderings.) I look forward to seeing it when its done.
Work has been underway for about a year now, but it won’t be completed until the end of 2016. Total cost: estimated to be around $5 billion. It should be one heck of an office building.
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