> Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-) About a day and a half. (that's based on 2017's $48 billion net income) So Apple almost certainly could afford to

> Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-) About a day and a half. (that's based on 2017's $48 billion net income) So Apple almost certainly could afford to buy the company, but they'd need a business case for doing so, weighing that option against all the OTHER nice things they might want to spend $200 million on.