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Just days after it was revealed that Apple vice president Doug Field was leaving Project Apple Car for a new gig at Ford, Apple’s Project Titan has a new boss. A report of Bloomberg said today that Apple’s Kevin Lynch is taking over the efforts of Apple Car.
Lynch has been with Apple since 2013, joining the company after a career at Adobe where he helped lead the development of Flash. With the title of Vice President of Technology, Lynch has played a major role in the development of the Apple Watch and its associated health features over the years.
Field is said to have led the “day-to-day” operations of the Apple Car Project prior to his departure earlier this week. It had been previously reported by Initiated that Lynch had added Apple Car software responsibilities to its portfolio, but today’s report indicates that Lynch’s scope of responsibilities has now expanded.
Bloomberg reports:
[Lynch] started working on the project earlier this year when he took over the teams responsible for the underlying software. Now he oversees the entire group, which also includes hardware engineering and work on self-driving car sensors, said the people, who have asked not to be identified because the move is not public.
Lynch’s choice to lead the automotive project indicates that much of the company’s focus still remains on the underlying software and autonomous driving technology, rather than on the physical mechanics of the vehicle. Lynch has been a software manager for decades, not someone who oversees hardware teams. In addition, he has never worked in an automobile company.
While Lynch himself has no experience in the automotive industry, Bloomberg Apple said still has “a few senior executives still on the project who come from the automotive world,” including former Tesla and BMW executives.
The Apple Car project is currently overseen by John Giannandrea, with Lynch taking care of the day-to-day efforts. Confusingly, Lynch reports to Jeff Williams, Apple’s COO.
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