As Silicon Valley and the Motor City fight for the future of the car, the latest raid took place Tuesday: Ford Motor Co. wooed Doug Field away from Apple Inc. to bolster its own efforts to better integrate software in the automobile.
The departure, announced by a gleeful Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley, is just the latest disruption to Apple’s ambitions for putting a vehicle on the road and the newest example of how Tesla Inc. continues to influence a generation of car development.
