“In Tesla’s Q1 2015 earnings call… CEO Elon Musk commented on Apple’s alleged electric car plans and the poaching war that has been ongoing between the two companies,” Jordan Kahn reports for Electrek. “”
“Regarding Apple’s plans to build an electric car, Musk said that he ‘hopes’ Apple will enter the car market and that it will be ‘great’ if it does,” Kahn reports. “Musk also today addressed the ongoing poaching war between Tesla and Apple by essentially saying that there isn’t a war, but if there was, Tesla would be winning it.”
“Musk noted that Tesla has not seen any ‘significant attrition’ of engineers to Apple,” Kahn reports. “Tesla, on the other hand, has recruited ‘five times as many people’ from Apple as Apple has from Tesla.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We hope so, too!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]