| Wednesday, April 19, 2006 |
15:51 - Here come da bulldozers
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Last week I said:
Compare that with the technical efforts that would be needed for Apple to refit OS X for generic x86 hardware. All those drivers? All that compatibility testing? That wouldn't be some afterthought by a guy in a lab; it would involve buying a new campus or two.
And today, there's this (via Daring Fireball):
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. is planning to build a new, 50-acre campus near its present headquarters in Cupertino, California, the company's CEO, Steve Jobs, said.
"What's happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years," Jobs said on Tuesday evening at a Cupertino city council meeting, which was recorded and viewable as an archived Webcast.
Jobs said that it would likely take three to four years to design and build the campus and that it could accommodate 3,000 to 3,500 employees.
Gads.
I guess that ballot proposition last year, whose aim was to make sure big taxpaying companies like Apple and HP stayed in Cupertino, must have passed.
If what they say is true, though, business is so good that there's no reason to worry that they're doing this in order to start being a PC software house.
Now I just wonder where the hell they're planning to fit this new campus? Cupertino real estate is pretty much spoken for...
UPDATE: Ah! So it's that one mysterious lot next to Vallco that's been a grassy field since I can remember. Interesting! That location was running through my head—honestly—but I assumed it had been vacant this whole time for a good reason...
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Brian Tiemann
