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Second Apple Employee Accused of Stealing Apple Car Details
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The one featured in the picture (RX350) still hasn't added CarPlay. Lexus has one of the worst infotainment systems among the luxury brands. Makes an odd choice for apple
be honest: if you owned a tech company would you hire a chinese national regardless of his or her credentials?
I wondered why Apple was interested in hiring people from places like China. It could also happen to Samsung employees to who work for Apple, just as much as their based from South Korea..
Stick to U.S people.. At least that Apple can admit "Their a US.S only operated company"
Most Australian companies try to do that here, but you can hear different accents over the phone. which means they are NOT entirely Australian
A big one at that. Allot of Chinese to grab.
Stick to U.S people.. At least that Apple can admit "Their a US.S only operated company"
Most Australian companies try to do that here, but you can hear different accents over the phone. which means they are NOT entirely Australian
A big one at that. Allot of Chinese to grab.
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It is irrelevant where Apple products are made, as for Chinese students, they come to the West to learn things they cannot learn at home, and while they are in the West many spy on and steal from their institutions and are even trying to sway the debates in the Universities. The problem is ethics. I live in China right now, culturally if someone can steal from you to gain an advantage they will, there is no cultural prohibition stopping it. Much like there is no cultural prohibition stopping cheating in exams.
At the end of the day, most businesses waking up to the reality of the dangers of employing Chinese people, they will be unemployable outside Chinese businesses soon enough.
Let’s not act like stealing trade secrets is a Chinese specialty, it has been going on for as long as there are businesses.
As for hiring Chinese engineers, it’s not like Apple went out of their way to hire them, if you exclude them, Apple, Google, Facebook, and etc., won’t be able to find enough engineers for their needs. These companies are not dumb, they know the risks.
Where do you stop?
Stop working with companies who hire Chinese? (There goes your iPhone production)
Stop employing people who have Chinese partners? (Because you don't know who they're loyal to)
Stop employing people who speak Chinese? (Because you know they're divulging stuff)
Stop employing people who have been/are going to China? (Because why would they?)
"The risks are too great"
What BS.
Well there certainly could be a happy medium? The Chinese have been notorious IP thieves. Why stick your head in the sand? And singling our the Chinese is not racist, Chinese is not a race, it’s Asian. Nobody here has been saying anything that would apply to Asians, just the Chinese and the government and culture that continues to support this disgusting behavior. As we have seen bans don’t work but certainly an awareness of this should be considered.
How about THANK YOU FBI! For all of the crap they take in the press and from the country and recently NOT getting paid for 35 days because of the shutdown but going to work anyways to protect our country. They are still working extremely hard to bring people to justice and protect our technologies just like this especially for Apple who everyone knows has been battling it out with the FBI for a while now. While neither side is far from perfect this is a great example that the FBI, Secret Service and all of these other agencies like them are truly for working for good and are not the agencies people like to think they are. They may not always go about things in the best manner but ultimately it is for the protection of this great country of ours!
If Apple does go into the full car scenario... where do they build them? Telsa are having enough problems making their cars affordable to continue production. Apple really would need to find a way to bring a car to market that was at a reasonable price point.
Apple's smarter. Instead of stealing physical documents like this case, they hire away the people who actually write them.
Apple has hired many Tesla engineers with intimate kniwledge of electric cars, and even destroyed at least one small company by poaching its top battery developers:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...attery-division-lawsuit-idUSKBN0LN04Y20150219
Apple has hired many Tesla engineers with intimate kniwledge of electric cars, and even destroyed at least one small company by poaching its top battery developers:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...attery-division-lawsuit-idUSKBN0LN04Y20150219
I think you would matter if there were shoddy workmanship. I would expect some are better than others.
Yea, AngerDanger, transformers rule. Imagine an arm to knock on a window while someone is driving and texting, finger wag for no no!I can't help feel like the demo Apple car we keep seeing in these articles is the mid-evolution between a normal car and a giant robotic spider car.
I'm not going to say stop hiring them, but come on they're the only ones doing this repeatedly, you don't see others running off to their homelands with troves of stolen technology. There's at least one incident per month. Huawei for example, the only reason why they're a huge player in network system is because they stole trade secrets down to the chassis from Cisco in 2003. Once they're in China there's not a god damn thing we can do about it.
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China are already pushing into the North American market with their cars, they're currently constructing a factory in Mexico that should be fully operational by 2020.
If this stuff was on his computer, you can bet that other parties have the info already...
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Of course, but they'd be stealing technology invented by Americans that was stolen by the stealers. Almost pointless...
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Of course, but they'd be stealing technology invented by Americans that was stolen by the stealers. Almost pointless...
It's "Stealing IP & Trade Secrets". It's called... Utilizing the "Best Practices" approach. Translation: Copying.
The chinese work hard for next to nothing. We should pity them. The poor guy was probably promised a year of free chicken dinners at KFC if he would steal from Apple. At least in America we usually raise the price if we're going to have to suck someones C***.