Telsa Hires VP Of Apple Hardware Design To Head Future Vehicle Development

Tesla Motors said it hired an Apple Inc. executive and former Ford engineer to lead development of new vehicles.

Doug Field, vice president of Mac hardware engineering at Apple, will be "responsible for driving development of new vehicles" as Tesla's vice president of vehicle programs.

Field was in charge of development of several Apple products, including the latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac, Tesla said in a statement today.

Field started his career as a Ford engineer.

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Agent009 - 10/25/2013 11:21:12 AM

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Can't argue with success. When it is done right the first time it only needs tweaks. Look at the 911 over the years

Agent009 - 10/25/2013 11:22:44 AM

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Actually except for a few cases with Apple, the price stays the same just the power and performance keeps increasing

Agent009 - 10/25/2013 4:13:58 PM

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Samsung leads the market with sales yes. But sales is just that. It has nothing to do with quality or innovation. Walmart has more sales than Neiman Marcus, but which has better quality items?

Think about it, you take a knock off of the leading phone operating system, then you copy the leading phone. Forget the copyrights. You just pay the fine 4 years later and save the R&D costs. You also make phones that literally are out of date the moment they are released and you dump them on the market. Cheap phones appeal to a larger audience, one that apple isn't shooting for. The end result is you get sales. Repeat sales? Maybe, maybe not.

Apple may be slower but their products typically hit the market better tested than the competition. Yes they screwed up with Maps, but they also corrected most of the reported issue within six months. As far as sizes. Well they do just fine with what they have, and yes I would like to see a larger screen, but that isn't in the cards, yet.

The point is if you complain about the prices Apple charges, you most likely are not an Apple consumer to begin with.

That is why Lexus is popular, almost the same luxury, 70% the innovation at a much cheaper price. All they are doing is scraping off the bottom rungs of MB, BMW, and Audi ladder.