“Apple Computer Inc. has been quietly but consistently leasing tens of thousands of additional square footage in its hometown of Cupertino, beginning at the end of 2004 and continuing into this year, according to public records and commercial real estate sources,” Sharon Simonson reports for The Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal. “Since December 2004, the city of Cupertino has received seven applications from Apple for new business licenses at seven different Cupertino addresses involving just more than 250,000 square-feet, according to Cupertino finance department records.”
Simonson reports, “In total, Apple has paid city business license fees or filed an application for a business license with the city of Cupertino on locations totaling more than 2 million square feet, city records show. That total includes its six-building world headquarters campus at 1 Infinite Loop, which represents about 850,000 square feet of the total… The company’s strengthening business climate and expanded hiring have been well-documented. Apple reported one-year sales growth of more than 33 percent to $8.28 billion for the fiscal year that ended September 2004. Its net income for the year was $276 million.”
Simonson reports, “In the same fiscal year, its employee headcount grew by 23 percent to nearly 13,500, according to the Hoovers reserach firm… Jim Beeger, a senior vice president with Cornish & Carey Commercial, a regional real estate brokerage, says ‘Apple is very quietly going around and taking 20,000 feet here and 30,000 feet there and really doing it quite quietly. Ironically, a lot of these buildings Apple moved out of in the 1990s.'”
Full article here.
Which reminds us: TPS reports are due this afternoon.
MDN,
Just tell him:
“Not right now Lumbergh, we’re kinda busy. You know what, in fact we’re gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back later, we’ve got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple minutes.”
First Post?
Magic word: new
Big Apple?
Why make noise about it? It would only raise your rates.
Hmmmm, another cloaked facet of Steve’s Master Plan appears. God, I love this. It is really fun to be a Mac User.
If they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit … They’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire…
Which reminds us: TPS reports are due this afternoon.
Sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays.
MW: always. As in, “I always watch Office Space when I stumble across it channel surfing. Always.”
Oh shucks! they caught us making room for the returned Nanos
Damn it feels good to be a gangster, doesn’t it Steve?
I remember reading about a technique used for investing where somone would monitor the parking lot of a company. When they stated to notice a lot of people in the evenings and weekends, this signaled that there was going to be a major announcement coming up.
The way I am reading this is that there will be an up swing in R&D as well as more people to keep up with the increased workload. I don’t see this as a short term event, but rather as something a year out. This would align up well with the Intel based Macs.
BTW, the CIA knowing this technique keeps their parking lots at a consistant level so as not to provide any signals to spying countries.
What am I gonna do with 40 subscriptions to “Vibe”?
If things go right I might be showing the world my O-face.
Don’t make me have to count your pieces of flair.
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Could someone forward me the email on reqiring cover sheets on my TPS reports? I think I missed it……
“,,,Oh shucks! they caught us making room for the returned Nanos…”
First laugh of the day!
Simple explanation the added real estate: Steve needs more room for his ego.
Actually, I heard they need the development space for the new iPod macro.
It’s a hybrid of an Xserve RAID with built-in iTunes and a Segway scooter.
It’s insanely great mobile entertainment that will change the way we build cities! No, seriously this time.
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(Could the iTunes Hummer be far behind?)
Apple needs space for the soon to be gigantic OSX86 division (lots of sales and support). Go get ’em, boys!
Hi theloneus
Good to know you can take a joke, such a rare creature on this forum
Don’t jump to conclusions over this leasing thing.
I finally convinced Apple to make my “Jump…to Conclusions” Mat. You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO. Because I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Ok “Joe McConnell” <——Apple employee! Don’t listin, don’t listin. Jabs fingers in both ears and begins singing loudly
*Yo VIP let’s kick it
Ice ice baby
All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don’t know
Turn off the lights and I’ll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it you better gain weight
You better hit bull’s eye the kid don’t play
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Ice ice baby vanillla
Ice ice baby vanillla
Ice ice baby vanillla
Ice ice baby vanillla
Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in and the vegas are pumpin’
Quick to the point to the point no faking
I’m cooking MC’s like a pound of bacon
Burning them if you ain’t quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi-hat with a souped up tempo
I’m on a roll and it’s time to go solo
Rollin’ in my 5.0
With my rag-top down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby waving just to say hi
Did you stop no I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I’m heading to the next block
The block was dead
Yo so I continued to A1A Beachfront Avenue
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rockman lovers driving Lamborghinis
Jealous ’cause I’m out getting mine
Shay with a guage and Vanilla with a nine
Reading for the chumps on the wall
The chumps acting ill because they’re so full of eight balls
Gunshots rang out like a bell
I grabbed my nine all I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car slammed on the gas
Bumpet to bumper the avenue’s packed
I’m trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene you know what I mean
They passed me up confronted all the dope fiends
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Ice ice baby vanillla
Ice ice baby vanillla
Ice ice baby vanillla
Take heed ’cause I’m a lyrical poet
Miami’s on the scene just in case you didn’t know it
My town that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
‘Cause my style’s like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed
This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast other DJs say damn
If my rhyme was a drug I’d sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it’s time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while Shay revolves it
Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby (oh-oh) vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla ice
Yo man let’s get out of here
Word to your mother
Ice ice baby too cold
Ice ice baby too cold too cold (x2)
Ice ice baby*
MDW: Study “Study these rhymes meticulously, for they will get you through the good days and bad days.”
*Ice ice baby, Ice ice baby vanillla!*
Some nameless idiot has a lot of time today?
Ironically, one of these spaces that Apple is renting is next door to a Chotchkie’s. I hope Steve will take his coffee breaks here. I will need to order some Apple flair. The new flair minimum is now 40. That includes you, Joanna.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well at least your name isn’t Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know there’s nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it… until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm… well why don’t you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way. Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.