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Now we know at least one thing that Apple will use its old headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop for: consolidating its teams that work on cloud and online services.
Apple plans to unify its cloud computing employees, including Siri, Maps, iCloud, and other services, at its old headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Bloomberg's $4.
Apple's cloud infrastructure teams have been divided physically and have had varying management to this point, which has contributed to the services' unreliability, and may be hampering the company's data-oriented car efforts, too. Most of Apple iTunes services ultimately report to Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of online services.
Unifying the teams will help Apple transition onto a new Apple-developed infastrucure system codenamed "Pie." Siri, iTunes, and Apple News already run partially on Pie, with Maps transitioning in the next few years.
Bloomberg also says that $4 will lead cloud services.
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A committee of Apple managers is currently working on the transition, but it's facing a number of challenges.
Apple may have already outgrown its new $5 billion campus. It expected 13,000 employees, but thousands more could eventually move. Apple grows like a weed around Cupertino and Sunnyvale, California with various offices sporting Apple signs out front.
The new office features an open floor plan, which may be bothering employees used to a more compartmentalized and quiet environment.
Only vice presidents and above will get formal offices - senior directors, who manage huge teams and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, will not be offered offices, as had been planned.