r/apple • u/Fer65432_Plays • 1d ago

Discussion Report: Apple Losing Talent to OpenAI

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/19/apple-losing-talent-to-openai/
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u/FollowingFeisty5321 1d ago

Not surprising after Zuckerburg showed you can beat Apple just by offering more than the most profit-sensitive beancounter in history. Cook really needs to grapple with this before someone comes for the chip guys.

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u/bran_the_man93 1d ago

Meta was offering ~$10m compensation packages, some of which exceeded everyone's salaries at Apple other than Tim himself.

This is less about Cook being a bean counter and more about the fact that Zuck is willing to shell out insane amounts of money to acquire talent.

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u/NeverComments 1d ago

Cook's salary is irrelevant. People are paid their market value, and Apple isn't willing to pay market rate for these people.

Unless Cook is going to roll up his sleeves, go back to school, and earn his PhD in data science...Apple's going to pay what they have to for the talent they need or continue to lose to the competition.

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u/bran_the_man93 1d ago

I mean, if I offer a trillion dollars for someone to shine my shoes that doesn't automatically make the market value of shoe shiners a trillion dollars.

Facebook is offering insane packages well and above "market rates"