The president of Apple, Tim Cook, spoke in a recent interview about the very intense activity of his employees in the first part of 2019. According to Tim Cook, Apple would have bought between 20 and 25 companies in the last 6 months, a surprising figure for those from Cupertino, who had similar purchases, usually in a whole year.
Practically, only in 2019 those from Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he would probably have bought around 20 companies, all in great secrecy, as the Americans are wont to do. Tim Cook did not provide details about the companies bought, but in recent years Apple has made a lot of investments in companies whose products were considered to be "future".
Apple Has Already Bought Dozens of Companies in 2019
In recent years, Apple has bought several hundred companies from all over the world, and some of their products have either been integrated into Apple's or launched as separate products. Of all, the most important acquisition was that of the Beats company, for which the Americans spent 3 billion dollars, and the money was not given in vain.
[If] we have money left over, we look to see what else we [can] do. We acquire everything that we need that can fit and has a strategic purpose to it. And so we acquire a company on average, every two to three weeks. Apple often doesn't announce these deals because the companies are small and Apple is "primarily looking for talent and intellectual property."
Apple has often been at the center of serious rumors regarding the purchase of important companies, but usually Americans have focused on lesser-known startups. Apple usually tries to buy small, cheap companies, in order to make a huge profit from the products created by them.
