Apple is investing more and more money to lobby them American politicians in the idea of proposing and voting laws that favor their interests, the main fight being to maintain their right to secure iOS against hackers.
American institutions are required to publish information on the amounts spent by companies for lobbying in favor of politicians, and below is the list of American companies that spent the most money for this purpose in 2015.
Google is the company that invested the most money in lobbying in 2015, more precisely 16.6 million dollars, with 0.23 million dollars less than in 2014, it being followed by Comcast with 15.63 million dollars and AT&T with 14.86 million dollars.
Facebook and Microsoft invest 2 times more money than Apple for lobbying, those from Cupertino allocating 4.48 million dollars for this purpose in 2015, with 0.37 million dollars more than in 2014, the growth in this segment being approximately 10%.
- Google: $16.6 million in 2015 vs $16.83 million in 2014
- Comcast: $15.63 million vs $16.8 million in 2014
- AT&T: $14.86 million, up from $14.56 million in 2014
- Facebook: $9.85 million from $9.34 million in 2014
- Microsoft: $8.49 million vs $8.33 million in 2014
- Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),: $4.48 million in 2015 compared to $4.11 million in 2014
- IBM: $4.63 million, a 6.5% decrease from $4.95 million in 2014
- Intel: $4.55 million in 2015, a 19.7% increase from $3.80 million in 2014
- Cisco: $2.69 million compared to $2.35 million in 2014
- Yahoo: $2.84 million in 2015 vs $2.94 million in 2014
Apple needs the help of politicians to ensure it can deliver on its launch strategies, a practice as old as the US legislature.
