I wonder if the spaceship campus is a sign of a peak.

Apple has had a great run, but every company eventually stumbles. No matter who is in charge, a company can't grow exponentially indefinitely.

The iPhone 5 is sounding very appealing to me - Sprint and T-Mobile supposedly are finally going to get it in the USA - maybe I'll finally get one before the end of the year. People generally only want one phone at a time. Markets eventually saturate. Maybe by this time next year, Apple will be growing at 5-10% a year rather than 50% a year. More like Microsoft than a startup...

Of course, when that happens, the MOTU on Wall Street will cry and cry that if only Jobs were still in charge then ....

I suspect teething problems with the new doughnut building, too. People are going to want to take shortcuts and not walk around the ring, so I suspect there is going to be pressure for spokes through the center.

It's comparable in perimeter to the Pentagon - http://multichrome.b...eship-campus.html

My $0.02.

Cheers,
Scott.

From his 1957 collection of essays, gathered under the title Parkinson's Law:

During a period of exciting discovery or progress there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. The time for that comes later, when all the important work has been done. Perfection, we know, is finality; and finality is death.

and

It is by no means certain that an influential reader of this chapter could prolong the life of a dying institution merely by depriving it of its streamlined headquarters. What we can do, however, with more confidence, is to prevent any organization strangling itself at birth. Examples abound of new institutions coming into existence with a full establishment of deputy directors, consultants and executives; all these coming together in a building specially designed for their purpose. And experience proves that such an institution will die. It is choked by its own perfection. It cannot take root for lack of soil. It cannot grow naturally for it is already grown. Fruitless by its very nature, it cannot even flower. When we see an example of such planning—when we are confronted for example by the building designed for the United Nations—the experts among us shake their heads sadly, draw a sheet over the corpse, and tiptoe quietly into the open air.

cordially,

Post #346,707 by Another Scott 8/25/11 6:44:14 AM Reply	I wonder if the spaceship campus is a sign of a peak. Apple has had a great run, but every company eventually stumbles. No matter who is in charge, a company can't grow exponentially indefinitely. The iPhone 5 is sounding very appealing to me - Sprint and T-Mobile supposedly are finally going to get it in the USA - maybe I'll finally get one before the end of the year. People generally only want one phone at a time. Markets eventually saturate. Maybe by this time next year, Apple will be growing at 5-10% a year rather than 50% a year. More like Microsoft than a startup... Of course, when that happens, the MOTU on Wall Street will cry and cry that if only Jobs were still in charge then .... I suspect teething problems with the new doughnut building, too. People are going to want to take shortcuts and not walk around the ring, so I suspect there is going to be pressure for spokes through the center. It's comparable in perimeter to the Pentagon - http://multichrome.b...eship-campus.html My $0.02. Cheers, Scott.
Post #346,711 by rcareaga 8/25/11 10:31:39 AM Reply	C. Northcote Parkinson anticipated you From his 1957 collection of essays, gathered under the title Parkinson's Law: During a period of exciting discovery or progress there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. The time for that comes later, when all the important work has been done. Perfection, we know, is finality; and finality is death. and It is by no means certain that an influential reader of this chapter could prolong the life of a dying institution merely by depriving it of its streamlined headquarters. What we can do, however, with more confidence, is to prevent any organization strangling itself at birth. Examples abound of new institutions coming into existence with a full establishment of deputy directors, consultants and executives; all these coming together in a building specially designed for their purpose. And experience proves that such an institution will die. It is choked by its own perfection. It cannot take root for lack of soil. It cannot grow naturally for it is already grown. Fruitless by its very nature, it cannot even flower. When we see an example of such planning—when we are confronted for example by the building designed for the United Nations—the experts among us shake their heads sadly, draw a sheet over the corpse, and tiptoe quietly into the open air. cordially,
Post #346,713 by Another Scott 8/25/11 11:35:51 AM Reply	Neat. Hubris is a big danger with so much money available..

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