Thanks to the documentation published by Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), together with the financial results for Q3 2013 we learn that, the company He spent almost 4.5 billion dollars for research and development during this year. The figure is 32% higher than the one allocated last year by Apple for the same thing. From 2011 until now the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has doubled the amounts allocated for this type of investment and we are talking about a very large amount that Apple could not afford in the past and that many other companies cannot afford now.
We know that Apple has over 1000 engineers working on the development of future chips for iDevices and there are certainly thousands more working on various projects within the American company, and that's where their money goes. Apple is constantly trying to innovate and to do this it needs massive investments in research and development, and based on the figures presented so far we can deduce that by 2015 Apple could increase this amount to 8.9 billion dollars.
