Apple gets a lot of flack for the high margins on their products, but those high margins allow them to design and create high-cost SoCs. They also essentially h

Apple gets a lot of flack for the high margins on their products, but those high margins allow them to design and create high-cost SoCs. They also essentially have a business guarantee that all of the chips they fabricate will get purchased, at a know price and ROI. So, on top of the vertical integration of software/hardware advantage, they have diminished risk.