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Phil Schiller: no Apple visitor center or gallery at new campus
Apple's new Cupertino campus won't be finished until at least 2016, and if Phil Schiller has his way, the new headquarters will not include a museum or gallery celebrating the early history of the company. Atlanta-based author and "computer historian" David Greelish wrote a blog post and started an online petition asking Apple to include a visitor's center at the new building featuring a small gallery telling the history of the company. Schiller's response to Greelish was short and to the point: "We are focused on inventing the future, not celebrating the past. Others are better at collecting, curating and displaying historical Items. It is not who we are or who we want to be." Greelish's petition has been met with little enthusiasm; MarketWatch notes that the petition recently had only 39 signatures and a guest editorial by Greelish on Cult of Mac has been met with mostly negative comments. But Therese Poletti of MarketWatch thinks that the idea is a good one, since the building will be "an architectural attraction for both the Apple faithful and sightseers." As she notes, "something to accommodate visiting tourists would be a gesture of goodwill for the company's fans and its neighbors in Cupertino." What do you think? Should Apple consider making a place on the new campus for Apple fans to visit? Or do you agree that another place, such as Stanford University or the Computer History Museum, should continue to archive the history of the company instead? Take our poll or leave comments below. %Poll-79311%
UK charity opens gaming visitor center / gaming gadget incubator for the disabled
Disabled gamers currently form a small, but growing portion of the gaming community, and the folks from the UK's SpecialEffect video games charity are seeking to get a lot more of them gaming. SpecialEffect -- with an assist from UK Prime Minister David Cameron -- just opened a Video Games Visitor Centre to give those with disabilities a place to experience cutting-edge gaming tech designed for the disabled, like eye-controllers, in its GamesRoom. The Centre also has a GamesLab where "games and hardware are tested for accessibility" so game devs can adjust their wares to get even more people dishing out pwnage than ever before -- bring it on!
