Meetings and goodbyes within 1 Infinite Loop are more frequent than ever.
THE The Verge reported today that Apple has hired, in the last four months, Jonathan Bolus and Andrew Joyce two engineers from uBeam, startup focused on wireless charging technologies that caused a stir in the technological world recently by announcing a technology that would allow charging devices by proximity instead of contact.

The data was discovered by the website analyzing the LinkedIn network and, from the, a greater trend was discovered: Apple has hired several professionals in the area of wireless charging in recent times, corroborating a rumor fanned by Bloomberg in January that the technology would be expanded to products other than the Apple Watch, the iPhone, of course, the first on the list of possible receivers.
Apple's approach to the concept of “wireless charging”, however, must be a little different than what we are used to. Following uBeam's technology (not yet demonstrated), as well as its own patents registered for years, it is possible that Ma has a technology that allows charging devices without the need for contact with a specific surface: just being close to the charger would be enough.
It is an extremely promising idea, as long as the obvious problems that arise from it are solved, the main thing, of course, is the fact that wireless charging technology is already slower than traditional in the contact method, and would be even slower without it. We will see if, with these contracts and its traditional perfectionism, Apple will be able to overcome this barrier.
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In the field of farewells, Apple has another casualty: Darren Haas, one of the last original members of Siri's team in Cupertino, left the company to join General Electric, as reported by The Information.

According to the story, Haas fell out with Apple management and has fought several disputes with the iCloud team recently, which would be one of the reasons for the departure. Another original team member, Steve D’Aurora, took the same path for GE a few weeks ago, raising suspicions about what is happening at Apple in relation to his personal assistant.
Amid criticism about its functionality and internal disputes related to the operating infrastructure, it is not difficult to deduce that Siri is facing problems, but it is not possible to know if the exodus of engineers at Apple is related to these issues.
The fact that, when it was a small startup before being acquired by Ma, Siri had ambitions much larger than the product that exists today and it would not be absurd to suggest that the engineers responsible for this vision would be dissatisfied so much that some of them presented a much more capable competitor last week.
(via MacRumors, AppleInsider)