I tend to agree. One way to ease that pain is for apple to make itself a supplier to others rather than the supplier and consumer of it's own parts. A top of t

I tend to agree. One way to ease that pain is for apple to make itself a supplier to others rather than the supplier and consumer of it's own parts. A top of the line iPhone costs ~$500 to 1000 bucks! why not try and go after the middle of the market by licencing the chipsets and other tech so that they can then supply mid teir companies that can compete in the android space with the lure of apple chipsets and hardware.