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> Apple will continue to take over companies that help it control its supply change, which are mostly companies you haven't heard of

This. Was surprised to not see any hardware manufacturers on this list.

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Buying a company might help them double or quadruple their services revenue as they have stated that's a goal. I would love it if they bought Twitter and made it a public service. I know there could be some synergies (sic) there as the engineers could certainly help bolster the stability of Apples cloud offerings in terms of uptime and such.

To me, Twitter goes against anything stands for. Twitter is like the wild wild west. I really can't imagine how they would fit in with Apples very polished M.O.

I agree. As soon as Apple bought Twitter people would want to hold Apple liable for some of the more unsavory things that happen on there. Apple will want to nip those complains in the bud quickly, else risk their brand reputation. Quick changes to appease the loud minority would likely overreach, frustrate the majority, and most of the user base just move on to some other service and think less of Apple at the same time. All while they'll be making no money off of it. It's a no win proposition for them.

Recent deal aside, I've long thought that Bloomberg would be a good place for Twitter - they already fund their excellent news services on the back of their financial services products. Twitter would fit well into that and also matches their "real time" approach.

But many of those companies face limitations on forgien ownership (china). I also think apple enjoys not having low-paid workers directly on its payroll.

Most of the parts are not made in China. That's where assembly is, but very little of the value added content of an iPhone is from China (<5%).

assembly will probably go robotic.. at least if I was Apple that's what I would do.

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