Apple self-driving car layoffs are a nod to reality: opinion

FILE- In this Dec. 26, 2018, file photo an Apple logo is seen in raindrops on a window outside an Apple Store at the Country Club Plaza shopping district in Kansas City, Mo. Apple is reducing the size of its workforce assigned to driverless car technology as the company reorganizes amid weakening sales of iPhones, its biggest moneymaker. The company acknowledged the cutbacks in a Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, statement, without specifying the number of jobs affected. CNBC reported that more than 200 employees were dismissed from Apple’s self-driving car division, known internally as “Project Titan.” (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Project Titan, Apple Inc’s increasingly abortive plan to build an autonomous car, doesn’t seem to have the strength its name implies. 

The iPhone-maker has dismissed about 200 people from the project, according to a Jan 24 report from CNBC. Some are being moved to projects in other parts of the company, as are other staff affected by changes at Project Titan, the report said.