Also good to take a look at how the Apple R&D figure has developed: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273006/apple-expenses-for-research-and-development/ htt

Also good to take a look at how the Apple R&D figure has developed: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273006/apple-expenses-for-research-and-development/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273006/apple-expenses-fo... Take for example 2010. R&D was less than $2Bi, but they already had iPhone 4, iPods, maintained two operating systems and bunch of other software, had the desktop line, two laptops lines and launched iPad.