cupertino

Because for Apple, Cupertino is the center of the universe, and they don't try to hide it.

Actually my team from Cupertino was county champ in Math Counts and 2nd in the state.

E.g., the large number who work in Menlo Park (Facebook), Mountain View (Google), and Cupertino (Apple) but live in San Francisco?

The Cupertino Thought Police is not going to kick your door in and drag you to the Infinite Loop basement for a Think Different session.

The reality distortion field at Cupertino remains strong.

> you need a relationship with someone in the Cupertino saloon.

I'm going to simplify the situation and focus on what I believe is the largest slice of the hypercompetitive student population: the children of successful immigrants (this classification is very representative of the Palo Alto and Cupertino school districts).

Even Apple has only been able to tout security and privacy as a feature in its products by juxtaposing it to Google's business model—had the latter not existed and its data grab become part of public discourse, I doubt that Cupertino would have been able to make so much noise about it.

I could similarly claim "OS X El Capitan is being QA tested six ways to Sunday" without being in Cupertino.

There's actually an iMac shell at the training facility in Cupertino with a sign that says something along the lines of "Don't smoke- if not for yourself, do it for your iMac"

I assume you're fixated on the "Cupertino" part of the sentence, but this part of his comment is a completely normal construct of English to creatively refer to a person or organization.

"Getting into the campus" is also a giveaway, in that "the campus" is basically "everything in Cupertino within 5 minutes of 280".

Giving them source code along with the deal is just not a good deal for anyone but the boys in Cupertino.

I get the feeling that somewhere in Cupertino, a room full of Apple engineers are giggling.

Wow, it looks like I agitated some Mountain View/Cupertino zip codes with my post.