However, if you were to go to the third floor of Building 3 or 4 and stare east you would see, rising in the distance, Apple's new "Spaceship" campus, which may eventually house almost all the employees from One Infinite Loop.

The 2.8-million-square-foot building is a circle with a giant quad in the center. It's hard to imagine how employees will get around it, let alone collaborate as they've been doing for decades at One Infinite Loop.

What, I wondered, would happen if one team was seated on one side of the circle and another all the way on the other side? Would collaboration suffer?

"Quite the opposite," Schiller said. "The design of the new campus has been all about fostering collaboration."

Apple, Schiller said, is well aware of the collaborative platform that the current building offers. The open quad means people can always grab a chair for impromptu meetings, though Schiller says its standalone buildings aren't actually as conducive to continual collaboration.

"Whereas, with the new campus, everything about it is designed for that. From the fact that, on the ring, the internal and external surface of the ring are the hallways, and they completely traverse the space," he said. "So you can walk through the entire space, both on the inside and outside perimeter and go from section to section."

"It has, obviously, the biggest, open quad-like space you can imagine and it's being designed to encourage us all to mingle and travel through it with pathways and even running trails through the campus. It has very large, open stairways and spaces vertically through the place both for its airflow and light, but also it creates a floor between the sections. We're creating an environment with large, open spaces between everyone’s seating areas to foster much more work together in communal space," Schiller said.

By this time, Schiller had gotten pretty excited. He obviously spends a lot of time thinking about Apple's new headquarters.

However, he caught himself and reminded me that he's not the architecture expert.

"But, absolutely, this is going to be the most incredible collaborative space that's been created."

Surely a phrase that Jobs would be proud of.