Apple has acquired 23 companies in the last 16 months

  During Friday the CEO Apple Tim Cook, made some interesting revelations about strategies Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, but also with the way the company has spent its money in recent years. The revelations came in a general meeting of the shareholders, and according to the current president of the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, in the last 16 months no less than 23 companies were purchased with the money earned by those from Cupertino. In Apple's entire 2013 fiscal year, the company spent $496 million to buy various companies, Wi-Fi Slam, Locationary, HopStop or Embark being just a few of the ones he found out about.

  For Apple's first fiscal quarter of 2014, the company spent 525 million dollars to acquire various companies, and we are talking about an amount greater than that spent in the entire fiscal year 2013. The money would have been invested "with the head", the from Apple acquiring, among others, the company PrimeSense whose technology was used in the development of the first Kinect sensor. Despite all the criticism, Apple uses its money to buy new companies, now it remains to be seen when it will implement their technologies in its products.