Apple Park opened to company employees in 2017, but before then, Apple’s nerve center was most often in offices. classic from Cupertino’s Infinite Loop Avenue. This is where Steve Jobs catapulted the company through the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad with his entire team of engineers, designers and developers.
And that is why in these offices there is something that has barely been touched since Steve Jobs died in 2011: his office. So appreciated by many, feared by employees, it has become something eternal for these offices. Even Tim Cook didn’t want to change that.
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An office frozen in time
The current Apple CEO himself said so in an interview he gave to Fast Company in 2015, at the request of an interviewer who saw the Steve Jobs poster next to his desk. Curiosity killed the cat and Tim Cook was candid in his response: I still didn’t know what I wanted to do with this office and therefore had not entered to touch anything.
The only times anyone has entered this office was when Jobs’ own family stopped by the Infinite Loop offices. Laurene Powell-Jobs collected some of the family’s drawings from her desk and Tim showed one of his daughters, Eve, around the office to see drawings she had made on a whiteboard inside these four walls.
But apart from family visits to see or pick things up, Tim still doesn’t touch anything else. In his own words:
“At first I didn’t want to come in. It was too much. Now I really enjoy doing it, even though I don’t do it often. I don’t know what we’re going to do with this office, I don’t I don’t know. I didn’t want to move there, Steve is an irreplaceable person and I don’t see anything going into that office, your computer is still there, your desk hasn’t moved and there are books on it. […] I don’t know. Your name should still be on that door. It is as it should be. That’s what I feel is right“
Certainly a place that very few people have had access to and now even less. Who could open that Mac and see Steve Jobs’ own desktop system, the way he organized the files and applications he used, don’t you think?
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