But nobody has said this guy was fired. It is possible for people to leave companies voluntarily. Maybe this guy had family reasons for leaving or maybe he was just burned out and wants to do something different or just take time off and enjoy all the money he's made.When corporations fire someone, they always say it's for personal reasons, or to pursue other opportunities. Both sides sign non-disclosure agreements and severance goes from the "fireor" to the "fireee" (I know, no such words).
Great point. They cant.
Since the idea of a fully featured self driving Apple Car is so preposterous, Apple should simply stay out of the automotive industry altogether . They're making the same mistake they made in the late 80s, getting in to too many industries and supporting too many product lines.
They should be using those billions of dollars of R&D money and talented engineers to make their existing products (iPhone) more compelling. Adding features like AI would make it even more compelling, and would be such large breakthroughs that they could make billions just by licensing out the technology (yes by this point I do realizing that horse that I am beating on is dead). Unless they can think of an entirely new consumer technology product, this really is the only logical move. Physical devices are likely to become less and less profitable over time as more innovation occurs in the cloud, which is why Microsoft is pouring so much investment into it (albeit in an unintelligent manner)
How do we know Apple isn't working on these things? I don't know why people assume this car project is the only thing Apple is working on from an R&D standpoint. Jony Ive has said 80% of the things they work on never see the light of day so I would imagine they have lots of things going on that we never hear about. Heck Tim Cook even said Apple is working on things that haven't yet made the rumor mill.
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