“According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple has made a major push to recruit talent from the electric carmaker, offering massive bonuses and significant salary bumps for those willing to come to work in Cupertino,” AppleInsider reports.
“Apple has put as much as $250,000 in signing bonuses and 60 percent raises on the table for its targets, Bloomberg reports,” AppleInsider reports. “‘Apple tries very hard to recruit from Tesla,’ Musk said. ‘But so far they’ve actually recruited very few people.'”
AppleInsider reports, “Word of Apple’s interest in Tesla employees comes days after the iPhone maker was revealed to be behind a fleet of mysterious camera-equipped vans that have popped up around the Bay Area in recent weeks.”
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I’m sure I read elsewhere that Tesla is also poaching from Apple. So perhaps the vans are looking out for ex-staff.
If they ever make a car, it better be All-Wheel Drive like a Subaru. I’d hate to have to pass it up because it isn’t.
Subarus are very good cars. I don’t own one but have always wanted one. High safety rating, go anywhere and last forever.
I plan to keep my Subaru until Tesla releases a nice affordable car (in 4-8 years in my rough guess.)
Can understand the boy racer appeal of the Subaru but surely more Android than Apple, no class and really a raunchy exhaust doesn’t really make it sound or look like a sports car does it. Just kerb more Chav appeal.
The Mystery Machine is probably a test bed for Apple batteries. 😉
There are some interesting options here that can help folks remember what integral journalism was once about.
Today we see that one could write about Apple trying very hard to nab Tesla engineers. For what purposes, who knows? Apple keeps its secrets. Then one could write about the mystery van sightings. Again for what purposes, who knows Apple keeps its secrets.
These two timely but possibly otherwise unrelated events are coupled together in an article. Is it a subtle attempt to create a causal link between the two event where they may or may not be one. Then again, might be a slow news day, or someone might be just two lazy to write two decent articles or do further investigation than to refer to Rob Enderle. Think about it, someone referring to Rob Enderle to add “beef” to the article being written. Sure smells like something.
An investigative reporter with integrity would definitely be out there getting the facts, forgetting the rumors and coming up with clear conclusions based on factual evidence.
Fortunately some of the comments of the story are well worth reading.
Journalistic integrity, just like Google search relevance went out the window with the advent of “monitization” of customers.
No argument there, just keeping the light on a bit longer in case a jouranalist there “gets it.”
Peace of mind.
This article right on the heels of a prior article stating that a vast majority of Tesla employees are poached from Apple.
What’s up with the pissing contest?
It’s a hit article, at best.
As we don’t know what skills the Tesla employees have its difficult to judge what relavence this all has. However an informed guess would say that their expertise is in batteries and/or electronic control of those bateries would be top of the list. We already know that Apple and tesla have had talks probably about such matters. As for the cars does anybody really think that Apple is really into driverless cars they have no real short to medium term relevance to reality. If Apple was interested at all it would be to test how they might impinge on its automotive plans long term. However far more likely is some form of mapping or related development followed by a deliberate attempt to make a monkey out of analysts coming to ludicrous conclusions.
Anyone who quotes “expert” Bob Enderle is hard to take seriously:
“Some, like technology analyst Rob Enderle, believe those vans are test mules for new self-driving car technology”.
Another possible conspiracy-theory angle on this could be that the former Apple employees now working at TESLA could be moles for Apple.