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Who gets Teslas made and throws Apple shade? It's… MUSK!

That Elon is one vengeful *shut your mouth*

Billionaire business mogul Elon Musk is taking some time away from his electric car and space exploration ventures to slag off Apple.

Speaking in an interview with Germany's Handelsblatt Global Edition, the Tesla founder said that employees who left the automaker to take up positions in Apple were anything but important pieces of his battery-powered luxury coach builder.

"Important engineers? They have hired people we've fired," Musk claimed.

"We always jokingly call Apple the Tesla graveyard. If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I'm not kidding."

The comments come in response to reports that Apple had been trying to poach Tesla engineers to come work on its mystery car project.

Musk appears to be anything but rattled at the possibility of an Apple-branded electric car coming to bump his company off the road. When asked if he took Apple's ambitions seriously, Musk responded "did you ever take a look at the Apple Watch?"

He noted that building an iPhone and designing an electric car were two very different engineering and manufacturing challenges, even for Sir Jony's minions.

"It's good that Apple is moving and investing in this direction, but cars are very complex compared to phones and smartwatches," Musk said.

"You can't just go to a supplier like Foxconn and say: build me a car. But for Apple, a car is the next logical thing to finally offer a significant innovation. A new pencil or a bigger iPad alone were not relevant enough."

Ouch. Paging Mr. Cook to the burn unit.

We've dropped Apple flacks a line for any response, but the company by and large does not respond to Reg requests for comment. Possibly because of this, this, this, and this. ®

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