Apple is a (system) software company. While that includes procuring and integrating individual hardware components, they're not a hardware company. They've rec

Apple is a (system) software company. While that includes procuring and integrating individual hardware components, they're not a hardware company. They've recently been branching out into designing their own hardware (or claiming to, it's not clear to me how much they've done in-house vs contracted out or off the shelf, but I digress) but they've been making software to put on other people's slightly-customized hardware for a much longer time.