apple university it is an internal company program Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), initiated just a few years ago with the idea of helping employees Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to participate in business courses, art and more. The university has the vice president of the human resources division as its dean Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the courses being held by various important members of Apple, or of other large companies in the USA and beyond.
One class taught founders of recently acquired companies how to smoothly blend resources and talents into Apple. The company may also offer a course tailored specifically to employees of Beats, perhaps including its founders, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. Neither Apple nor Beats would comment.
People interested in participating in university courses register on the Apple website and depending on their interest or field of activity, they are chosen to participate in the program. Courses are also organized in these interests/fields of activity, some presenting the important decisions made in the past by the Apple company, others presenting how the design of Apple products evolved over time and not only that.
In a version of the class taught last year, Mr. Nelson showed a slide of "The Bull," a series of 11 lithographs of a bull that Picasso created over about a month, starting in late 1945. In the early stages, the bull has a snout, shoulder shanks and hooves, but over the iterations, those details vanish. The last image is a curvy stick figure that is still unmistakably a bull.
More precisely, a course explains the decision taken by Steve Jobs to make iTunes si iPod compatible with Windows, although he was initially against this idea, another presenting how employees can communicate new ideas to their bosses and the list goes on. Moreover, Apple helps the employees of recently bought companies to learn how to make the transition to its culture easier, these courses being specially designed for each type of company.
The classes are taught on Apple's campus in a section of buildings called City Center and are as thoughtfully planned as an Apple product, the employees said. The rooms are well lit and built in a trapezoid shape; seats in the back rows are elevated so that everyone has a clear view of the instructor. Occasionally, classes are given in Apple's overseas offices, like one in China, and the professors travel there to teach.
As far as design courses are concerned, Apple employees studied in detail the Picasso, together with other great artists of the past centuries, Jony Ive drawing inspiration from their creations in many of Apple's recent products. In the same idea there are courses that explain why Apple has the culture it has and launches the products we have known for so long, its employees also explaining the thinking behind the marketing and the way the design was thought .
Of course, Apple also uses comparisons with other competitors' products to present the supremacy of the design of its products, the instructors trying to impose on the employees the mentality according to which they work in a company that tries to achieve perfection in each new product launched. Apple University was a concept that Steve Jobs supported and without his help it would not have been realized, and thanks to his courses Apple employees manage to create the products we see now.
