In recent years, we've seen a lot of hiring movement at Apple. A large number of the hires came from Tesla, at least while Apple kept developing the Project Titan, the project with which Apple wanted to make an autonomous and electric vehicle that apparently, dismissed for lack of viability.
However, Apple's latest move shows us how it has again hired an engineer who until last month was working for Apple. This signing draws especially attention because He is currently working in Apple's special projects department.
Michael Schwekutsch is currently serving as Apple's senior director of engineering, while at Tesla he was the vice president of engineering for Elon Musk's company. In recent months, the only news we've had related to Apple's autonomous driving system shows us how some Asian workers have been arrested for industrial espionage.
One of the last detainees had on his computer several photographs of an anchoring system for vehicles, a system that is not related to autonomous driving, so ruling out that Apple has abandoned this project, could be what Apple wants to divert attention, especially when a few days ago the dismissal of more than 200 engineers was announced.
Apple wants to start focus your efforts on services, a category within the company that has been increasing its income year after year, currently representing a fairly important part of the company. With Apple News +, Apple Card, Apple Arcade and Apple TV +, we see how Apple services want to become a new source of income to try to compensate, the dependence of their income from the sale of hardware, especially the iPhone, now that it has started to slacken.