The frosty relationship between Elon Musk and Apple shows no sign of thawing any time soon, although it appears Musk is fine with that fact.
We told you back in October about some of his thinly-veiled barbs at the tech giants, but for the purpose of clarity we’ll rehash two quotes that just about sum it up. Here’s Musk on the Apple ‘secret’ electric car:
“They have hired people we’ve fired. We always jokingly call Apple the ‘Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple.”
“It’s pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it.”
Despite those quotes Musk still tweeted this out after news outlets the world over reported on the feud:
Here’s 9To5Mac with the latest:
…Musk reiterated his content that Apple is jumping in the EV industry, which is in line with Tesla’s mission to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. As usual, he warned of the difficulty of building an electric vehicle, but this time he added some optimism to what Apple could bring to market [saying] “companies like Apple will probably make a compelling electric car”.
Musk’s comment about Project Titan being an “open secret” in the industry follows a recent report confirming that Apple registered three new car-themed domain names, which just keep adding to the evidence that Apple is developing an electric vehicle.
This Apple electric vehicle must be the most poorly kept secret since Ricky Martin came out in 2010.
[source:9to5mac]
