Assembled in Cupertino once more. ;)
replyYeah, Apple just designs and writes the SoC, CPU, graphics unit, neural unit, compiler (Swift), OS, graphics layer, 3D API, core libs from graphics to persistence, filesystem, broadband chip, and a few more things besides...
replyNotably good models are not on that list.
replyNeither are other capex heavy items like chip fabs.
replyYeah, they also don't mine their own steel and copper. Such mere assemblers!
replyYeah, that totally makes them merely assemblers then /s
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