Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
Not that latner is guaranteed to make a good VP - a whole different ballgame to being a technical lead.
That could be the exact reason he is taking this job -- to prove himself in a broader venue.
I think it's more of a strategic "trade." What a great opportunity for Apple to have some Swift talent at Tesla to possibly now be able to incorporate Swift in some form or fashion into Tesla's software development!
I'm not a programmer, but knowing a little about Swift's and Objective C's potential power and object orientation and strong intercommunication between objects and processes, it would seem to be a great platform for the complex tasks of Autopilot.
And it would seem to invite, ultimately, deep compatibility with Apple's ecosystem.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
In the last few years this has been accelerating.
Completely different market/industry conditions from even a few years ago.
Unless Apple is a special case of some sort, it's just the nature of the biz.
Not that latner is guaranteed to make a good VP - a whole different ballgame to being a technical lead.
That could be the exact reason he is taking this job -- to prove himself in a broader venue.
I think it's more of a strategic "trade." What a great opportunity for Apple to have some Swift talent at Tesla to possibly now be able to incorporate Swift in some form or fashion into Tesla's software development!
I'm not a programmer, but knowing a little about Swift's and Objective C's potential power and object orientation and strong intercommunication between objects and processes, it would seem to be a great platform for the complex tasks of Autopilot.
And it would seem to invite, ultimately, deep compatibility with Apple's ecosystem.
Your strategic trade comment is interesting -- there are many possibilities of co-operation between Apple and Tessa.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
In the last few years this has been accelerating.
Didn't Avie Tevanian left during Jobs's reign, while OSX was still half-baked? People come and go from Apple all the time. You only hear about it more because no other company is worth writing about, apparently.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
If true (and I'm not sure that it is to any meaningful degree), that may partially have been down to the illegal anti-poaching understandings that were in place in the 00s.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
That may partially have been down to the illegal anti-poaching understandings that were in place in the 00s.
Not really, it's just confirmation bias. You don't hear about the comings & goings elsewhere; I doubt Apple's attrition rate is special in Silicon Valley.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
In the last few years this has been accelerating.
Interesting -- do you have links to back up those claims? Otherwise I don't know how you know what Apple's attrition is and has been. There are still vets at Apple who have been there for decades, some since the original Mac.
We would like to welcome Chris Lattner, who will join Tesla as our Vice President of Autopilot Software.Chris’ reputation for engineering excellence is well known. He comes to Tesla after 11 years at Apple where he was primarily responsible for creating Swift, the programming language for building apps on Apple platforms and one of the fastest growing languages for doing so on Linux. Prior to Apple, Chris was lead author of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, an open source umbrella project that is widely used in commercial products and academic research today.
As Chris joins Tesla, we would like to give a special thanks to Jinnah Hosein, SpaceX’s Vice President of Software, who has been serving a dual role as the interim Vice President of Tesla Autopilot Software and will now be heading back to SpaceX full-time. We would like to thank Jinnah for the efforts needed to achieve excellence in both roles, David Nister, our Vice President of Autopilot Vision, and the team for their exceptional work in advancing Autopilot.
We are very excited that Chris is joining Tesla to lead our Autopilot engineering team and accelerate the future of autonomous driving.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
In the last few years this has been accelerating.
Didn't Avie Tevanian left during Jobs's reign, while OSX was still half-baked? People come and go from Apple all the time. You only hear about it more because no other company is worth writing about, apparently.
he had released plenty of OS X versions at that stage. Would be like leaving during the OS X beta program.
Everyone at Apple, regardless of position, pay, contribution, and other opportunities, stays at Apple, all the time, for the rest of their lives, even after death.
Why, I just had a glimpse of a mummified Bertrand Serlet being wheeled toward the Apple HQ cafeteria! I think he's having the veggie wrap.
It was actually very rare to have people leave early or in the middle of their work during Jobs' reign. There were next veterans who were there for 20 years who were the major contributors to OS X and then to the iPhone.
In the last few years this has been accelerating.
Didn't Avie Tevanian left during Jobs's reign, while OSX was still half-baked? People come and go from Apple all the time. You only hear about it more because no other company is worth writing about, apparently.
he had released plenty of OS X versions at that stage. Would be like leaving during the OS X beta program.
OS X was essentially "beta" software until 10.3.0 was released.
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In the last few years this has been accelerating.
I'm not a programmer, but knowing a little about Swift's and Objective C's potential power and object orientation and strong intercommunication between objects and processes, it would seem to be a great platform for the complex tasks of Autopilot.
And it would seem to invite, ultimately, deep compatibility with Apple's ecosystem.
Completely different market/industry conditions from even a few years ago.
Unless Apple is a special case of some sort, it's just the nature of the biz.
Your strategic trade comment is interesting -- there are many possibilities of co-operation between Apple and Tessa.
Does anyone know anything about Chris' replacement: Ted Kremenek?