Apple stock is flying high, although since its boffo fiscal Q2 2012 (calendar year Q1 2012) earnings results the stock has been pretty stagnant (the stock had fallen some 70 points a peak of $636.23 on April 9 before the earnings release, and now sits slightly above $600). With a market cap of $564.38B as the world’s most valuable company, Apple is far below where Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White believes it will end up: a trillion dollars sometime in 2013.

Apple’s level of secrecy over its projects and products has been called draconian, even to the point of inconveniencing (and that’s putting it nicely) employees, and soon they won’t even be able to leave Apple’s facilities to have lunch, for fear of competitors overhearing their conversations. Admittedly, that’s a little hyperbolic, but there is a measure of truth to that statement.

Apple has had a planning request approved by the Cupertino Planning Commission, one that will allow the company to build a two-story, cafeteria-style facility to accommodate employees that currently work out of the various Apple facilities along Bandley Drive on the west side of North De Anza Boulevard. The key: the facility will be Apple-owned, and private, with no public access.