Featured Image Credit: Tiktok/@sebastian_monsalvo/Apple
Topics: TikTok, Apple, California, Technology, Social Media, Viral
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: TikTok, Apple, California, Technology, Social Media, Viral
If you've not had a cup of coffee yet, you might want to grab one before reading this as a TikTok video is leaving people's brains fried.
TikToker Sebastian (who goes by @sebastian_monsalvo on the platform) recently took a trip to California and stayed in a hotel in Cupertino.
Upon arriving at his accommodation and looking at his Apple Maps, Sebastian noticed something familiar about his location.
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Apple has updated so many things over the years - from its emojis to the size of its devices - but there's one thing that you probably didn't notice was changed back in 2017.
That thing is the Apple Maps logo. Once upon a time the icon showed 1 Infinite Loop (the location of Apple’s longtime headquarters), but this has since been changed.
Now, the logo shows Apple Park, it's new corporate headquarters that opened seven years ago, The Verge reported at the time.
Earlier this month, Sebastian had been staying in or near a Hilton Garden Inn located a short distance away from the infamous Apple Park just off the Interstate 280.
The Apple Maps icon seemingly shows the highway interchange with N Wolfe Road - where Sebastian's hotel looked to have been.
As for the gray circle in the logo, it looks like that might be a chunk of Apple Park's large, circular campus in a nod to its HQ.
With that in mind, the official icon isn't quite to scale and Apple seems to have brought the building closer to the intersection in question, so it fits into the small logo.
Still with me? Good.
As the icon isn't 100 percent to scale, it makes Sebastian's apparent revelation even more impressive as he quipped that he was 'staying in the Apple Maps logo' in his TikTok clip that's been viewed 1.3 million times.
People have since commented on their surprise at their newfound knowledge via Sebastian.
"I've actually been in this hotel when I worked at Apple Park. Didn’t realize it’s the Maps icon," someone said.
Another person wrote: "I STAYED THERE AND HAD NO IDEA!!!"
Echoing similar sentiments, a third added: "The way I’ve stayed there so many times and never realized??"
Noting how complicated it must have been to work this out, a different person labeled the video as a 'massive brainrot'.
In regards to those who questioned what Sebastian was saying, the college student insisted that he knows 'literally everything' about Apple and has long been a fan of the tech firm.