> Changing processor was risky for them. Which specific Apple-made SOC do you claim was a company-ending risk? The A4? Surely not, it was just commodity compon

> Changing processor was risky for them. Which specific Apple-made SOC do you claim was a company-ending risk? The A4? Surely not, it was just commodity components they integrated. The A6? Clearly not. That's the first SOC where they included their own CPU design, but if it had failed they could just have used the A5 as a backup, given they were already manufacturing it on the same process as the A6 was released on. And so on. Why do you think Apple didn't recognize whatever risks you think were there, and mitigate for them? Are they really so badly managed that they'd just risk a trillion dollar company on a roll of the dice rather than have the appropriate contingencies? Why doesn't every single chip maker run exactly those same risks? Heck, why doesn't every user of commodity CPUs run those risks? The things you claim that could happen to Apple's SOCs could also happen to Qualcomm. Why isn't every user of Qualcomm's chips up the shit creek if a Qualcomm CPU fails validation?