[makeitdouble]

> high ranking Apple employee

Jony Ive basically works for Open AI (it's more complicated, but it's a good approximation), and has more or less rebuilt a designing team over there.

He's not the central person mentioned in Apple's accusations but that's arguably the central point that's triggering all of this.

[ajmurmann]

Didn't he live Apple a very long time ago?

[danso]

Yes, the high ranking employee at the center of the accusations is not Ive, but Tang Tan, former VP of product design

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8w379e091o

[alwillis]

He left in 2019 and formed his own company, that did design work for Apple until 2022.

He "took" several Apple employees with him when he left and there's been a steady stream of Apple employees going to OpenAI.

Ive isn’t responsible for all of them obviously, but the articles about lawsuits says there are 400 former Apple employees at OpenAI.

[SoftTalker]

Sounds like Apple needs to do a better job at being a place where employees want to stay.

[manmal]

Or, good that the craze for ever thinner laptops has been slowed?

[MBCook]

A lot more than several. Sounded like it ended up being a large chunk of his team.