I'm not an expert, but it seems that may be something like the oldest trick in the book. Commodore under Jack Tramiel, for example, had a reputation for doing t

I'm not an expert, but it seems that may be something like the oldest trick in the book. Commodore under Jack Tramiel, for example, had a reputation for doing this kind of thing: it's rumoured to be how they ended up owning their CPU supplier MOS Technology. (Not that I think Apple is up to that kind of thing in this case.)