I know, R&D is like that in every company. It is mostly "development" not research. What I am pointing out is that they could be doing a shit ton of research,

I know, R&D is like that in every company. It is mostly "development" not research. What I am pointing out is that they could be doing a shit ton of research, what happened to big companies sponsoring fringe research? That used to be a thing, at Microsoft even.