According to information, more than 700 people lost their jobs at Apple recent WARN report Published by the California Employment Development Department (EDD). Most of those laid off worked at Apple’s offices in Santa Clara, 371 of them coming the location of the company that primarily deals with the company currently defunct electric car project. Under California law, companies must submit a report to the EDD for each location affected by layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) program.
Eight Apple locations in Santa Clara were out of business, including the main automotive office, although one of them was working on its internal business. MicroLED display project reported broke in March due to costs and technical difficulties. The company had hoped to produce its own displays for iPhones, Macs and smartwatches, but that won’t happen anytime soon.
Apple’s original automotive ambitions were to create a fully autonomous car without pedals or a steering wheel, until it decided to develop an electric car instead. A previous one Bloomberg the report says Apple canceled after billions of dollars and ten years of investment, the initiative was internally dubbed “Project Titan”. Employees who developed the car were given the chance to move to other divisions of Apple, including teams working on artificial intelligence and home robots. But he failed to reintegrate everyone into the company, according to Apple’s WARN report.
Apple is believed to be in its very early stages development of personal robotics for people’s homes. One of the machines currently in the works is a robot that follows people around, and another is a desktop device that uses a robot to move a screen. Bloomberg report. The company’s work on personal robotics is part of its efforts, including Vision Proto find new sources of income.
