The iPhone maker has recruited a pair of top Google satellite executives for a new hardware team, according to people familiar with the matter. John Fenwick, who led Google's spacecraft operations, and Michael Trela, head of satellite engineering, left Alphabet's Google for Apple in recent weeks, the people said. They report to Greg Duffy, co-founder of camera maker Dropcam, who joined Apple earlier this year, the people said. A lure for technology companies like Apple, Google and Facebook is to connect billions of people who don't have internet access yet. Tim Farrar, a satellite and telecom consultant at TMF AssociatesIndeed, Apple may have hired the Google executives for something other than satellite work.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 22, 2017 00:00 UTC