Netease science and technology news, July 29, according to bloomberg, familiar with apple's car project, according to people familiar with the company has recruited to the front of the blackberry company car software executives Dan Dodge (Dan Dodge) to join us in the apple project team leadership. Analysts believe that this also indicates the apple car project are turning to the focus of the development of self-driving technology.
Dodge is QNX operating system developers, founder and former chief executive, the company in 2010 by blackberry. In early 2016, dodge to join apple. His team leader is Bob Mansfield (Bob Mansfield), since the latter took over as apple car team, apple car project strategy has been changed.
Apple project now is focused on developing unmanned systems, although it is still not to give up their cars design apple's efforts. This means that apple could end up with car manufacturers cooperation or buy a car manufacturers, rather than building his own car. An apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
Apple has assembled hundreds of engineers engaged in car design work, goal is the earliest apple car launched in 2020. But this goal continuous setbacks, including many people leave, technical delays and confusion of direction, etc. As the iPhone smartphone demand saturation, the business account for half of the apple sales also fall, highlights the importance of adding new source of income.
Compared with the same period last year, apple r&d spending rose by a quarter in the second quarter of this year, to $2.6 billion. In the recent results, an analyst at the meeting, Tim Cook, apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, said: "many products are under development, quite a number of investment products and services to those who have not yet launched. Apple has a lot of people are engaged in work outside of the current product."
Mansfield, report directly to the cook, unlike his predecessor Steve firm '(Steve Zadesky) first of all need to hardware supervisor Dan Joe (Dan Riccio) in the report, the latter report to cook again. Mance, phil department mainly consists of three pillars, they are led by apple elders, including John Wright (John Wright) software under the leadership of the team, with Benjamin Leon (Benjamin tread team, led by the sensor and ewald nowotny (D.J. Novotney) lead hardware engineer team, dodge, belonging to the white team.
The dodgers in 1980 when the university of Waterloo in Canada, and jointly create the QNX. In 2004 the company was sold to Harman International Industries, then acquired in 2010 by blackberry. QNX development the latest mobile operating system for special purpose, the blackberry is still applied in some of his smart phone. QNX also develop mass, Daimler, ford motor company use entertainment and navigation as well as the connection system. Last December, the dodgers.
Apple is QNX is located in the suburbs of Ottawa, Canada's capital, set up r&d center near its headquarters. Like apple has just set up the office in Boston to take advantage of a large number of local speech recognition experts, tower, the office will help apple to make full use of local talent pool car software.
Apple will forward to the "dual-track" model, in addition to developing unmanned software, has not given up to develop their own cars. Apple is continuing to "looting" car company, in order to recruit more experts specially designed car manufacturing system. Apple has recruited 2 ford engineers, they specialize in aluminum body car research and development work.
Todd Gray (Gray) may resign from ford last year to join the apple, ford, he was responsible for development used in the manufacture of the F - 150 truck aluminum body body system. His colleague Andrea Campbell (Aindrea Campbell) was a ford body construction engineer team manager, responsible for research and development F - 150 vehicles such as the use of lightweight materials, she in September last year to join the apple.
