Shortly after taking the stage at WWDC, Steve Jobs made an appearance before the Cupertino City Council to pitch the local governing body on Apple’s ambition to construct a brand new campus. The positioning for the curvaceous, four-story, “human-scale” building to deal with 13,000 employees is the unique home of HP’s computers division, land that was recently sold to Apple. The valuables is currently covered by a sequence of huge asphalt parking lots. Apple’s plan would increase the landscape coverage from 20 to 80 percent with the aid of a senior arborist from Stanford who may help restore many of the indigenous plants to the valuables, including the apricot orchards. Apple plans to make the campus’ energy center the facility’s primary power generator using natural gas and other “clean energy” sources — the town would simply provide backup power when needed. Without a doubt , what would a Jobs presentation be and not using a few choice superlatives? For that reason, Jobs claims that the brand new curved-glass facility would be the “best office building on this planet,” luring in students of architecture anxious for a peek. Apple plans to interrupt ground in 2012 with a 2015 move-in date.
As an aside, it’s fascinating (and yes, troubling) to look at Gilbert Wong, Mayor of Cupertino, guffaw at Steve’s “jokes” like a smitten schoolgirl, going as far as to fawn over his own iPad 2 in front of the assembly. For his part, Jobs seems to bite his tongue during several exchanges particularly when one city council member tries to extort free WiFi from Apple in an apparent quid pro quo. Click through to determine what we mean.
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