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Vertical integration (e.g. designing and fabricating their own hardware components, sourcing their own raw materials) is probably the best investment of Apple's cash reserves.



Why? Don't they benefit tremendously from building (mostly) on an ultra-competitive, near-commodity components market?

When they want something strategic (Retina screens, custom ARM) they make a big investment, but I can't see how getting directly into the fab business gives them any kind of long-run advantage.




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