Chris Lattner Says Opportunity to Work on Tesla’s Ambitious Self-Driving Efforts Was ‘Irresistible’ – Mac Rumors (Jan 17, 2017)
Chris Lattner is the Apple engineer and creator of the Swift programming language who recently left the company to go work at Tesla. His departure was seen as a sign of unhappiness at Apple and therefore played into the overall narrative about Apple’s troubles. However, Chris Lattner has now spoken about his actual reasons for wanting to move to a new role, and as I suspected it was more about wanting a new challenge than any negative feelings towards Apple per se. Given how excited Lattner appears to be about autonomous driving in particular, we might speculate that Apple’s more exploratory investment in that area was less attractive than Tesla’s current rollout of the technology. And it’s also possible that Apple was keener to hire someone with more specific expertise and history in that area than Lattner offered – Apple tends to hire what it considers the best possible person for a new role rather than moving someone internally.
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