Filed under: Apple Corporate, Video, Steve Jobs, Apple
Video of Jobs proposing second Cupertino campus
My friend
Chris Saribay sent me this link to a video he
posted on his blog showing Steve Jobs proposing to the Cupertino City Council a plan to build a second, 50-acre Apple
campus. Reuters already reported on
this, but it's great to hear it, as Chris writes, "from the horse's mouth." It's very Stevenote-y, with Jobs
sporting his usual black turtleneck attire -- except the setting is almost eerie: him standing in front of the council,
in an near-empty room.Definitely worth a watch, if for nothing more than to hold you over until the next official Stevenote.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Senator K said 8:51PM on 4-19-2006
All praises upon his holy Steveness! The council must approve the expansion of our Mecca!
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Graham said 8:52PM on 4-19-2006
Steve has got some INTENSE eyebrows goin' on. Does this mean apple will not be doing the whole india tech-support thing??
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Stefan Constantinescu said 8:54PM on 4-19-2006
Is there a mirror? Seems to be down
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Clark Mueller said 9:04PM on 4-19-2006
It should be more sane now.
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J said 9:19PM on 4-19-2006
I like how it's just silent once he's finished speaking, how his eyes dart around with apprehension, waiting... What do they think? Did I sell them on this? What will they say?
And that guy, in the back, "What the h*ll?! A freaking boombox?!"
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KRW said 10:16PM on 4-19-2006
What was he trying to sell? Can I buy two of them?
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Victor said 10:16PM on 4-19-2006
Woot! Now the apple engineers can go to FOBtasia..err..Fantasia across the street.
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Gilbar said 10:22PM on 4-19-2006
The setting really made him look like a regular guy for a while. I was thinking that all he needed was the council to applaud whatever he said...and then they did!
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andy said 10:32PM on 4-19-2006
i cant believe i just watched that - im so sad, oh no, not only did i watch that, i went to the trouble of writting a post and confirming it in my email, I NEED SLEEP!
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Joseph said 10:40PM on 4-19-2006
Does he EVER wear something different? I'm going to have to try and ask someone who seess him at Apple, if that's what he wears to work. He prolly wears that shirt, and jean color pants to bed! :P
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+ Jeff + said 11:30PM on 4-19-2006
lol, He scratched himself two times... nervous reaction?
He seemed a little nervous.
+ Joseph, I saw him wearing khaki shorts once.
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KRW said 11:57PM on 4-19-2006
He probaly has 1000's of black shirts in his iCloset.
"hmmm which shirt should I wear today"
Atleast I hope he does. That would be quite sick if he only has one and never washes it.
his handler-
"Come on steve give us the shirt!"
steve-
"No! My giggie!"
his handler-
"Steven! It has iDirt all over it. We need to wash it before you go play with Billy!"
steve-
"Your not getting the shirt unless I can launch a new iProduct!"
his handler-
"okay...okay! You can launch the iToaster.
steve-
"Yeah iLikey!"
(steve standing naked with white apple logo tattooed on his chest)
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GadgetTV said 11:58PM on 4-19-2006
Ya I wonder what his closet looks like.
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Wheels said 1:00AM on 4-20-2006
Dude, SNL could make a good spoof of that.
I wonder if Disney will build a monorail between the two campuses. If they do, I want a job!
Is the address for the new camps going to be 1 NeXT Step?
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Charles Powne said 2:17AM on 4-20-2006
Compare his attitude to Nike's antagonistic relationship with Beaverton, where they managed to arrange to keep themselves out of city (and the tax base) for the next 30 years, by bullying the state legislature. Steve's a good citizen. Phil's not.
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Smart said 3:56AM on 4-20-2006
It's actually kind of interesting to see a presentation given by Jobs that's less polished than his keynotes. Kind of a more human, aw-shucks, rib-scratching Steve Jobs. It almost seemed as if his next point of business would be to request that the city put a stop sign on his street to slow the traffic down..
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bufflo said 6:57AM on 4-20-2006
That was almost insanely great! He should do more of this, less of iPod Hi-Fi!
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Peter said 9:38AM on 4-20-2006
Ask.com Map of the new location (best I can tell for never having been to Cupertino)
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Elias said 9:39AM on 4-20-2006
Steve's closet probably looks like Nanny's from the Muppet Babies.
-- Elias
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Derby said 9:50AM on 4-20-2006
I can't blame him. Having hired ex-dell managers to :pause: well "manage" the Austin Apple Campus, all the veterans have left as it's been turned into a micromanaged hell hole, who's main focus is selling products from the Apple Store rather than solving peoples issues (in the absolutely shortest amount of time possible or you get a demerit!). They even have an automated program called Blue Pumpkin that automatically assigns hourly employees a new schedule every six weeks. I guess the damage is irreversible.
WTG.
Derby
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