I think maybe John Ternus is more of a “*Hey, what* would *Steve have done here?*” kind of guy. What would Steve Jobs do with this OpenAI situation? He’d go to war.
‘It Seems You Have a Different Policy’
Ben Thompson, in a subscriber-only Stratechery update Tuesday:
I got a fun email from former Apple executive, Nest founder, and
one-time Stratechery Interview subject Tony Fadell in response to
yesterday’s Update about Apple suing OpenAI (published with
Apple’s suit against OpenAI under Tim Cook echoes a familiar playbook, betting that litigation can delay a rival from upending…
John Ternus and Tang Tan had competed for control of Apple’s hardware organisation years before Tan left to build OpenAI’s iPhone…
Most of OpenAI’s Apple recruits came from Ternus’ hardware engineering division, and some designers had backed Tan over Ternus…
The iPhone maker is escalating its legal battle against the AI company.
Apple is suing AI for stealing trade secrets; there is one guilty employee, but this mostly feels like lashing out.
At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued…
