How Apple may have ensured that it is end of OpenAI's 'smartphone dream'

Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI may have already dealt a fatal blow to its ‘secretive project’ of building a rival smartphone. While CEO Sam Altman has publicly fired back on X, stating that he is “not afraid of Apple”, the litigation is already threatening to crush the ChatGPT-maker’s hardware pipeline by choking off its recruiting and wrapping its engineers in red tape, as per a report by Bloomberg.The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of executing a campaign to systematically poach Apple engineers and extract highly confidential, unreleased hardware blueprints. OpenAI is accused to have targeted Apple's hardware design divisions, effectively poaching over 400 former Apple employees with massive, ultra-lucrative compensation packages.The talent drain within the iPhone product design team became so severe that Apple was forced to entirely rebuild parts of its engineering groups.