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Lot of assumptions baked in here, but the major Chinese manufacturers are not the only ones doing that by a long shot, if that's your complaint. Additionally,
by icelancer 8y ago
Lot of assumptions baked in here, but the major Chinese manufacturers are not the only ones doing that by a long shot, if that's your complaint.
Additionally, the amount of cash Apple has on hand doesn't strike me as people plunging a major amount of their cash reserves into R&D. Much the opposite, actually.
- simonh 8y agoThe're expanding R&D very rapidly, quadrupling their spend on it over the last 6 years. For a mature company with an already well established product development operation that's pretty astounding. It's just that they became so immensely profitable so fast, their profits in absolute numbers still dwarf it.