Apple Gains Footing in Court Feud With Former iPhone Chip Architect

[magbarn]

Apple has always been bad with pay. These thoughts should NOT enter the mind of an employee, especially one as critical as your lead chip designer. Simply paying them 350k and throwing in a million in stock won't cut it. These guys are making you billions of dollars a quarter. wtf is Apple doing.

I hope he was making over a mil per year. After the feds and California taxes are done with you, the 350K isn't all that big for someone so crucial to Apple's speed dominance in phone/tablet CPUs...

 

[PseudoRegister]

How did Apple get access to the private text messages?

I imagine someone (perhaps still an Apple employee) who received the messages shared them with Apple. That seems like the most likely route.

 

[psingh01]

I imagine someone (perhaps still an Apple employee) who received the messages shared them with Apple. That seems like the most likely route.

Or they were worked issued phones, which would be really dumb on his part.

Either way I side with the former employee unless it is proven that he used Apple resources which is a no-no.

 

[ulyssesric]

How did Apple get access to the private text messages?

Ask his colleagues that received these messages. Sometimes you don't really need high tech approaches for a simple solution.

It's a very basic standard procedure for HR to investigate malpractices. Given by the situation of his planned resign, it's not hard to imagine how his colleagues that still stay at Apple are willing to comply.

 

[- rob -]

How did Apple get access to the private text messages?

Probably because they were sent using a company-owned device. This is what happened to the FBI agents whose texts have been brought into the impeachment investigations. Devices at big organizations are provisioned to allow access to the contents of the devices.

I'm guessing this guy just used a work laptop and or iphone to talk about and write business plans for--maybe even just visit websites related to starting a corporation or getting an IP attorney for a new startup. Probably got drunk on his idea of being a successful startup founder and didn't think about how serious Apple would be about it.

I agree with people that this person sounds like they made mistakes, but brilliant people get catfished. No matter your intelligence or trade skills, everyone makes mistakes.

 

[sdf]

I guess William was trying to push Apple to develop their own ARM CPU for Desktop and Laptop. And somewhere along the line management refuse. He was fed up so he pulled people to form a new company developing it.

You're reading a complicated motive where a simpler and more human one would do: He wanted more.

 

[ksec]

Nuvia's stated mission is just server CPUs, isn't it?

Yes Sorry I meant high TDP CPU. Where Desktop was a reference more towards Mac Pro rather than iMac.

You're reading a complicated motive where a simpler and more human one would do: He wanted more.

I dont know, entirely possible too.

 

[omihek]

He argues that Williams can't be sued for simply coming up with a new business idea while working at Apple

Lol yeah definitely a totally new idea that just came to him out of nowwhere.

"Hmm I should do exactly what I'm doing, but just not here."