Apple has acquired more than two-dozen startups in the past six months

Apple typically buys smaller companies from fourth dimension to fourth dimension for their talent or specific technologies but rarely comments on the deals. But now, Tim Cook himself has said inwards an interview amongst CNBC that his companionship has snapped upwardly 25 startups inwards the past times 6 months.

The CEO said that Apple buys a companionship every ii to 3 weeks on average, having bought to a greater extent than or less twenty to 25 companies inwards the terminal 6 months alone.

Apple oftentimes doesn’t denote these deals because the companies are small-scale too Apple is ‘primarily looking for talent too intellectual property,’ Cook told CNBC’s Becky Quick inwards an interview from Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder coming together over the weekend.

Here’s what Cook said:

If nosotros receive got coin left over, nosotros await to reckon what else nosotros tin do. We start out everything that nosotros involve that tin check too has a strategic exercise to it. And too hence nosotros start out a companionship on average, every ii to 3 weeks.

One of the best examples of Apple’s acquisition strategy is its purchase of the startup behind the Siri vocalization assistant, which itself was a spin-off from a projection originally developed past times the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center equally an offshoot of the US of America Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA)-funded CALO project.

A to a greater extent than recent instance is Texture, a digital magazine subscription startup that the iPhone maker purchased inwards 2018 for a reported $485 million. The iPhone maker fifty-fifty announced that bargain amongst an official press release because it was clearly of import to them. Indeed, a few months afterwards Texture served equally a dry reason for Apple News+, a novel digital magazine too paper subscription service which launched inwards Apr too is available inwards the News app.

Texture volition close down afterwards this month.

Apple paid $3 billion to start out Beats

The company’s largest acquisition inwards recent retentiveness was its $3 billion bargain to start out Beats Electronics, including the Beats headphones concern too the streaming service that became Apple Music. The charge per unit of measurement of these acquisitions deals seems to receive got accelerated lately because only a few years dorsum the Cupertino theatre was buying nigh two-dozen startups per year.

According to Apple’s latest lucre report, the companionship even too hence has $225.4 billion inwards cash on mitt which highlights its massive purchasing power. Some analysts receive got said that some of that coin should locomote used towards making  a major transformative acquisition deal.

Apple considered buying Time Warner, but analysts receive got long been calling for an Apple/Netflix deal. Something that could brand fifty-fifty to a greater extent than feel is an acquisition of Disney.

The Mickey Mouse household lately announced its upcoming video-streaming service, dubbed Disney+ too packed amongst premium content, aggressively priced at only 7 bucks per month.

At whatsoever rate, Disney surely has the clout too fiscal mightiness to pass whatever it takes to unseat Netflix. Apple, too, is coming out amongst its ain streaming production inwards the fall, too they’re calling it Apple TV+.

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