I know... it's pretty hard to continue reading when the first statement is obviously false.

Apple is a design company and software in a secondary measure. They are not a manufacturer. They used to be one up to early 90s, making most of Macintoshes in house.

Real hardware companies are mostly in China, Taiwan. (Such as Foxconn.) Except some advanced microchip foundries.

Apple as hardware company is common sense among HN crowd :D

Well most of the software is free, you tell me. :)