Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about it’s acquisitions, meaning they generally don’t reveal their reasons for purchasing a company—which holds true for their latest purchase of Texture, a magazine subscription service provider.
Over the last 10 years, Apple has completed more than 70 acquisitions of smaller companies.
For the datagraphic below, we’ve pulled data on some of their deals from the last decade. With each newly acquired company there was a technology that enabled (or enhanced) the company’s suites of devices and services.
Here are some of the companies that built Apple:
