Those foreign corporations named "Apple whatever" are owned, and controlled by "Apple Inc. (forever)". Such conglomerates are usually treated as one for tax pur

Those foreign corporations named "Apple whatever" are owned, and controlled by "Apple Inc. (forever)". Such conglomerates are usually treated as one for tax purposes, which is why Apple and others can't just create 2500 shell companies each year to take advantage of various "startup" incentives across the world. That's the sort of knowledge journalists learn in journalism 101, before they advance to their seminar on "sensationalism and selling advertisement" and the group therapy session "some know-nothing on the internet thinks I have anything to do with the BBC's business side, completely ignoring that online advertisement is, like, 0.001% of the BBC's revenue and that, being one of x thousand people working for the BBC, and my articles' revenue going into one big pot with all the others', my personal future is almost completely devoid of anything resembling a link to my articles' readership numbers".