Ford Just Poached Apple Exec Who Was Leading Apple’s Automotive Efforts

While Apple appears to be on a roll hiring engineers and specialists from automotive corporations, it seems to be like Apple might need attracted sufficient expertise the place they’re now seen as being primed for being poached themselves. In an announcement from Ford, the corporate has revealed that they’ve employed Doug Field.

For these unfamiliar, Field had come to work for Apple again in 2018 the place he had beforehand held a place at Tesla the place he oversaw the event of electrical automobiles for the corporate. Clearly this was a giant win for Apple again then since Field’s space of experience was type of what the corporate needed to do (or so the rumors claimed).

However, over time improvement on Apple’s rumored electrical automotive has hit numerous street bumps, finally leading to Apple transferring improvement to a different division. It is feasible that these delays and setbacks may have helped Field make a neater determination to depart the corporate for Ford, however that’s simply our hypothesis.

According to Ford President/CEO Jim Farley, “Doug is one of the world’s most respected engineering and product design leaders and has been a driving force behind breakthrough products across auto, tech and mobility, including at Apple, Tesla and Segway.”

He provides, “His talent and commitment to innovation that improves customers’ lives will be invaluable as we build out our Ford+ plan to deliver awesome products, always-on customer relationships and ever-improving user experiences. We are thrilled Doug chose to join Ford and help write the next amazing chapter of this great company.”

Filed in Apple >Transportation. Read extra about Apple Car, Electric Cars, Ford and Self-Driving Cars. Source: media.ford