After long dreaming of running around the Apple campus, it was revealed to be for employees only.

 

 


 Every entrance is gated with guards.  All that space is just for the boys club of involuntary office commuters making over $300k.  Kiwipedia clearly states "The Visitor Center is the only part of Apple Park which tourists are permitted to visit."

Indeed, Steve Morris, Marc Merlin, Jerri Ellsworth, Curious Marc & the gang may own houses in the center of everything, but it's all gated office campuses now.   They're just tourists in their homes.

 It was formerly an HP campus & accessible to the public.  Lions visited it in 2000.  There are no photos of the interior but it was comprised of a huge cube farm with a tall ceiling & power drops from the ceiling.  Lions went there during rolling blackouts & the intercom was playing warnings about it.

It might have been a converted factory & quite outdated by 2000, with improvised provisions for modern power & networking.

 There's a 2.5M view video of Steve Jobless unveiling the spaceship campus in 2011, 4 months from death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M

 Lions believe their best stuff came from the infinite loop campus & the spaceship campus was another case of the skyscraper curse.  Their last true home run was the apple watch in 2015.  The spaceship campus opened in 2017.  Most of the public's memory of the spaceship campus is comprised of the Vision Pro unveiling, a decided flop.  Kiwipedia doesn't even have any photos of a novel product after 2017.

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 There's still a desire to at least run from the early apartment to the early school.  Lions eventually attained the financial means to be more nostalgic about silicon valley than to resent the bad experiences.  It was overall a positive experience, no matter how many bad days there were, how bad the commutes were, how few women there were, how expensive it was, or how single minded it was.  It definitely became a more significant chapter in human history during the last 25 years than any other time & lions were lucky to witness a small part of history.

Lions will always be more nostalgic for what was done in the 80's than what came after 2000. That period was the foundational work.  It was new, more diversified, & the most valuable.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PIi1LWkfDE 

Here's to 40 years of going & standing on your own, & you leave on your own, & you go home & you cry & you want to die.
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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