Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company
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"There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery." _In the Beginning, was the Command Line_
I would probably say he's either burned out or was tasked with something that he feels the company can't deliver on and has decided to just cut bait and move on. I'm sure it will be spun by Apple's PR as a "mutual" parting of the ways and something about "leaving to focus more on his family". A few years from now, we'll get a clearer picture. Even in the article they mentioned unrealistic time lines.
I'm still not sure how I feel about Apple getting into electric cars. It's kind of like your favorite metal band suddenly decides to make pop music.
They got into music, then they got into phones.
It seems like they get into a new area when that area stops being what it was and starts becoming computers.
I think autonomous cars are probably going to be like that, Apple certainly has the capital to pull it off (and the example of Tesla).
It does happen you know. Family or friends get sick, pass away etc.
I wouldn't necessarily read more into it. The article states that this person was with Apple for 16 years and worked on iPhones/iPods before the car project. 16 years is a long time, so it could legitimately be personal reasons.
I'd feel differently if this was someone they poached from Tesla or Detroit specifically to run the car project. But, an insider who had car experience prior to Apple (at Ford) who was already with Apple when the car project started... it could be anything.
Never seen the two conflated like that though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait#The_changing_...
Some states like Michigan have laws that if you sell cars in their state you have to make the car in their state. So Apple would have to build a factory in Michigan to sell cars there like all of the rest. Smart phones, tablets, computers don't have that requirement and can still be made in China.
About 6 years ago I tried to get money for what I called the iAuto device that ran Android and replaced a car stereo and did GPS and played music and videos and other stuff. But I couldn't get it crowdfunded. I figure if Apple can't make electronic cars, they'll make a device like the iAuto based in iOS that replaces a stereo in cars and runs apps and can even use smart cars to auto park and collision detection and other stuff.
Are you sure this is about manufacture and not dealership?
so, Metallica? I'll have to agree with you.
Iphones were not originally designed for easy automated assembly; early ones had internal discrete wires which had to be soldered. Newer ones use custom flexible printed wiring, which is more suited to automated assembly.
HN don't take kindly to flagging. But really, either play social or go home.
There's a quid pro quo here.
And no, actually, I'm not interested in supporting Murdoch/NewsCorp in the least.