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Former Apple Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Apple Car Secrets
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You mean they can rationalize their greed, which is let's face it, the whole enchilada.
not greed necessarily. If this was a westerner, then pure greed might be the reason. It’s probably hard for a westerner to understand. Greed may play a part, but for some Chinese (citizenship origin, not ethnic/race), they would do anything to better the motherland. No matter where they are, whatever citizenship they have, their hearts belong to the mainland.
Again, those outside China, especially westerners who valued capitalism and individualism more, might find it hard to understand.
Everything is fun and games until you steal the mouse from Xerox
Are they actually doing that? Sure China's still growing rapidly economically & in many other areas, are they getting better though?
Again, I’m generalizing. That doesn’t mean condoning specific actions. Seeing the perspective of others might make us learn and take precautions before hand.
Apple’s greed in catering to Chinese market might also make them more susceptible for infiltrations.
Bit different, Xerox didn't have an employers contract and strict NDA in place with it's visitors. They were free to do what they wanted to. Harsh but true.
Not only that, many modern vehicles also have a camera/sensor module in the windshield which forms an actual “notch”!
He is not going to escape! Justice is served!
I don’t know if Xiaolang Zhang reporting back, “they’re far behind” is really considered a secret.
But on a serious note: I can’t wait for the Apple Car to come out so I can watch iFixit break it down with their lil tools.
But on a serious note: I can’t wait for the Apple Car to come out so I can watch iFixit break it down with their lil tools.
I admire how brazenly confident you are about something of which there are nothing but rumors.
If your neighbor decided your lawnmower would look better in his garage, would you want the “Govt” to put them in jail for stealing your property? He might say you have enough money to get a new one.
Tesla is run by an alien who is trying to build the technology needed to get him back to his planet. He is the basis of the the character Thomas from “The man who fell to Earth”
The guy will be fine.
He’ll just have to start off again at the bottom… washing dishes…. in no time he’ll be serving the best fried rice in any penitentiary in the country.
He’ll just have to start off again at the bottom… washing dishes…. in no time he’ll be serving the best fried rice in any penitentiary in the country.
Chinese people cannot do anything wrong. The U.S. offends China, again * ∞.
You are so right. Chinese companies know Apple fails when it comes to entering new markets. Especially when they are too late to market. Kind of like, smart phones, tablets, watches,music streaming, tv streaming, even with computers their vision for personally owned computer was believed to be totally bonkers, until it work and a partner stole their technology and created windows.
Exactly. His original crime is likely a minor frustration to Apple. And that he’ll never work in the automobile or tech industry again is his own doing. The absolute worst thing he did was hurt all the people who still work at Apple.
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Do we know if it was sponsored or even tacitly supported y the Chinese state? There's a big issue with IP theft. And so often the standard defence seems to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Chinese_people
Allegedly caught after fleeing in a Siri-powered vehicle prototype.
In China it's "us vs. them" mentality, so even if people understand that stealing IP from your former place of work is bad on an abstract level, they'll never denounce a local person for doing that to a foreign country. Also money there is much more important than in the West. I am sure there are many Chinese who recognize that what he did was wrong, but at the same time no-one would publicly speak out against him for fear of being labelled unpatriotic.
Hmm, so Apple's self-driving efforts are following in the footsteps of Google's Waymo where most of the revenues come from suing former engineers. If there's one thing that current self-driving tech is good at, it's looking valuable.