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Swift and Xcode Head Chris Lattner Leaving Apple for Tesla This Month [Updated]
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Or maybe it was an exciting opportunity he couldn't refuse? Which is most likely.
Tesla is weak in software, which is an area Apple is strong in. Stealing software engineers from a company who knows a thing or two about good interface design. I can see the logic behind that.
Why criticize my idea when yours is no better and why do you want to bash Apple, assuming the worst reason for his departure?
I'm just looking at the facts, here's a former college boy with an idea that Apple taps and pays for his talent. Apple was his first position after university and he had a debt to repay them for their support.
But his field of expertise is not cars nor turning electricity into a transportation; it's optimizing the compilation of a high level computer language to a usable compact executable file. Why's he at Tesla and why do they want that ability? Remember this is a business not a golf game.
I have a feeling Tim Cook has the vision of that he will forever make high margins on new iphones and milk iTunes sales into eternity.
As far as advancement in technology? Microsoft can do that....
As far as advancement in technology? Microsoft can do that....
If you read the Apple news websites like this one every day, you would have seen over the past couple of years a number of high profile Apple employees leaving the company. It's by no means an exodus but it does point towards an underlying issue.
Well, to be fair, of the last few years there have been various people joining Apple as well. And given multitude of reasons why people might be moving on, while some underlying issue is certainly within the realm of what might be behind it all, it doesn't really seem like it's a given or anything like that.
Im expecting (alongside these) the "Apple should just buy Tesla" comments too
we should play Bingo with mac rumors
A VP position at Tesla is pretty sweet. After 11 years at Apple, I totally understand if he wants a change. I wouldn't read too much into this.
No point sticking with Apple if they're killing AppleScript.
I'll be able to accomplish everything I can do on a scriptless Mac using a Windows or Linux machine.
Even if Apple comes up with some lame-ass replacement, I won't have the confidence in it required to rewrite my collection of useful scripts. Probably have to dedicate an old Mac to running the things where their function is irreplaceable.
Rather than dumping AppleScript, Apple should port it to iOS. That'd be nice.
I'll be able to accomplish everything I can do on a scriptless Mac using a Windows or Linux machine.
Even if Apple comes up with some lame-ass replacement, I won't have the confidence in it required to rewrite my collection of useful scripts. Probably have to dedicate an old Mac to running the things where their function is irreplaceable.
Rather than dumping AppleScript, Apple should port it to iOS. That'd be nice.
There aren't any recent changes in Apple's turnover. If you were paying attention it's part of the Apple Corp Culture to have turnover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Papermaster
"Mark Papermaster is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Micro Devices.[1] He had been[2] the Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple Inc. He replaced Tony Fadell who was responsible for the team that created the iPod. Papermaster worked at IBM from 1982 to 2008. His last position at IBM was as vice president of IBM's blade server division. In 2008, Papermaster's decision to move from IBM to Apple became central to a court case considering the validity and scope of an employee non-compete clause in the technology industry. In August 2010 he stepped down from his position because of issues with Apple's internal politics and corporate culture.[3]"
The facts are ALL major (and probably minor) corporations regularly turn over their senior and mid level managment around every five years. It's a dog eat dog world. The worst (most turnover) are often around a year and the best (least turnover) 20 years. Interestingly even those ranked the best (least turnover) are for the most part less than 8 years of tenure.
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-ranked-by-turnover-rates-2013-7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Papermaster
"Mark Papermaster is the Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Micro Devices.[1] He had been[2] the Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple Inc. He replaced Tony Fadell who was responsible for the team that created the iPod. Papermaster worked at IBM from 1982 to 2008. His last position at IBM was as vice president of IBM's blade server division. In 2008, Papermaster's decision to move from IBM to Apple became central to a court case considering the validity and scope of an employee non-compete clause in the technology industry. In August 2010 he stepped down from his position because of issues with Apple's internal politics and corporate culture.[3]"
The facts are ALL major (and probably minor) corporations regularly turn over their senior and mid level managment around every five years. It's a dog eat dog world. The worst (most turnover) are often around a year and the best (least turnover) 20 years. Interestingly even those ranked the best (least turnover) are for the most part less than 8 years of tenure.
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-ranked-by-turnover-rates-2013-7
Thanks for reminding me, I almost forgot this isn't a golf game <smh>.... Why do you think he's going there to write a compiler? That would definitely mean he was sick of Apple. He's going there to be a VP and do something fresh or different. Something that I think Apple should have tried to afford him but apparently didn't.
It may not be trivial but it's also not incredibly complex. A basic structure of a computer is simply a bunch of 1's and 0's. Writing a programming language is not as difficult as you may think, once you understand how it works. He did a fantastic job with LLVM, but not so much with Swift, if he did a good job with Swift they wouldn't have to change it with every release and break backwards compatibility. So just because someone is good at one thing, doesn't mean they will be good at something else. AI requires a completely different mindset, and I'm not confident that he has it.