"After some years of dwindling turnover Apple finally got bought by Facebook, which gave Facebook a way to counter the ever stronger integration between Google's mobile offering vertically integrated from the website all the way to the phones and tablets running its Android-NG operating system. The reason it took as long as it did before this could come to pass is that Apple had tremendous cash reserves from their enormous business success in the first two decades of the new century and tried very hard to stay independent."
Agreed the political stuff was thin, but I could not resist the temptation and it fits well with the present day landscape becoming more and more polarized where people start treating politics more like team sports than something affecting all of us.
