The article does actually talk about this. > Unless Apple starts building cars -- or perhaps spaceships -- it will keep accumulating cash. Their point is that

The article does actually talk about this. > Unless Apple starts building cars -- or perhaps spaceships -- it will keep accumulating cash. Their point is that Apple has so much cash (coupled with an MO of not casting a wide net in new product efforts) that they will never spend it all on R&D.