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Electric Motorcycle Startup Mission Motors Ceases Operations After Losing Talent to Apple

Vjosullivan said:
Let's be honest. If it had been Microsoft, you wouldn't have written that.
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No. Everyone is free to go and work where they want to. If you choose to go from Apple to Microsoft, that's just fine. Though knowing hundreds that have or do work for Apple, I haven't met many that ever make that jump.
 
MacBH928 said:
Maybe I am getting old, but the quieter the machines the better. I hate noise pollution
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My brother says it's so they can be heard AND seen. He's having hearing issues as he gets older. So, what's that point again? I mean, if you can't hear a car horn, or something approaching, how good was it to be the damned awful and loudest thing on the street?
 
peterdevries said:
Please read my post more properly. That is not what I said. I said that in general it can be a problem for small startups when a large giant pulls away key personnel. At no point did I say that Apple killed this particular company.

Why are you so aggressive?
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Fair enough... I get it. You're saying that you commented on the article TITLE, not the article. Gotcha.

And I suppose probably for the same reason you're so snively...? Comes down to upbringing I guess, & who we became.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
So, do you realize what you are saying?

An engineer is tied to the company. Not unlike a capstan in a sailing ship. They won't be able to leave EVER.

That kind of logic, is hard to call logic. People move from job to job, and from corporation to corporation. Laws to prohibit that have largely been shot down as being illegal and unconstitutional.

From the history that I posted upstream on the company, it looks like they became 'all smoke and no fire' pretty quickly. They were apparently surviving on VC funds, and apparently had no real marketable product themselves, but a lot of 'LOOK AT THIS! It'll be available in a few months' only to have the product not materialize (At least twice!).

Sounds like a waste of a good engineer's time, and they got out before the gunwales dipped below the waves. I can't blame them. I jumped from a compay early in my career as a human. They had no clue what they were doing, and suppliers were getting tired on the late payments, and I just sensed things were about to go 'tits up', and they did... Was I wrong? Should I have stuck it out to the bitter end, and had my paychecks start bouncing?

ANY engineer worth their weight in salt would hopefully see the possibility of a good future, and stay.
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Killing companies is bad business. Sometime i wish Microsoft just dealt Apple the killing blow when they had the chance.
 
5232152 said:
Killing companies is bad business. Sometime i wish Microsoft just dealt Apple the killing blow when they had the chance.
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Yeah, but there are laws against that kind of thing. IF applied by the administration residing in the White House.

Microsoft scored big, huge, ginormous, when the SCOTUS gave Bush the election in 2K. He effectively killed the Microsoft antitrust case.
 
5232152 said:
Killing companies is bad business. Sometime i wish Microsoft just dealt Apple the killing blow when they had the chance.
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Gates and company knew if they did anything like that to choke them out of the market, that would give the Fed a totally convincing case to break up Microsoft after the monopoly declaration. Monopolies stifle progress and keep the incompetent in power, just like socialism.
 
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