Oh snap!
Tesla founder Elon Musk doesn't have the same outspoken reputation as, say, T-Mobile CEO John Legere, the latter of which loves to rile up Sprint through social media. However, Musk isn't afraid to talk some smack, especially when it comes to Apple and its rumored efforts to build an electric car.
Apple's electric car initiative is one of the worst kept secrets in Silicon Valley. There's evidence all over the place of Apple's automobile efforts, including the hiring of former Tesla employees. Do you think Musk feels threatened by that?
"They have hired people we've fired," Musk told Handelsblatt, a German newspaper, according to Engadget.
Musk indicated that he and his auto industry colleagues refer to Apple as the Tesla Graveyard. In a non-joking manner, he said that "if you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple."
Shots fired!
That wasn't all Musk had to say about Apple and its electric car efforts. He's fine with Apple branching out from devices like the Apple Watch, but noted that "cars are very complex compared to phones or smartwatches. You can't just go to a supplier like Foxconn and say, 'Build me a car'."
Musk also offered up some snarky criticism about Apple's ability (or inability) innovate.
"For Apple, the car is the next logical thing to finally offer a significant innovation. A new pencil or a bigger iPad alone were not relevant enough," Musk said.
If it's any consolation to Tim Cook and the gang, Apple wasn't the only one that drew criticism from Musk. He was more than willing to talk about German automakers and what they're doing wrong, along with the industry having reached the end of the limit of what's possible with gasoline.
"You see what's happened with the current diesel scandal at Volkswagen. In order to make progress, they apparently had to cheat," Musk said.
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