Fab Apple
July 17, 2013
When you’ve got $150 billion cash, zero taxation liability and a glaring gap in your supply chain, what do you do?
Well, for a long time you shirk the issue, if you’re Apple, and you shilly-shally around flirting with various alternatives.
But, eventually, you have to do something. Your main rival, Samsung, can make its own chips. You can’t.
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