Apple in the II quarter of 2014 to the third (36%) increased spending on research and development in comparison with the data for the same period in 2013. Information about the company transferred to the Office of the American stock exchange regulator. If the American giant computer electronics will continue to invest in R & D at the same rate, by the end of the year the company's costs on this item of expenditure will exceed $ 4.5 billion
During the period from April to June 2013 Apple spent on research and development of $ 1.6 billion, versus $ 1.18 million a year earlier. The absolute record for this quarter. Over the last nine months of fiscal year 2014, Apple investments in research and development amounted to $ 4.36 billion in the same period last year, the company spent on R & D by 32% less.
In official documents Apple said that investments in the last three months have been focused around the new products, as well as the empowerment of existing solutions. The Corporation did not specify what, exactly, is at stake. In addition, the document states that the company's investments are needed to maintain its position in the current highly competitive market of mobile devices and computers.
At the same time, the size of the investment in products different from Apple completely identical. Not difficult to guess, most of the investment directly related to mobile devices. The lion's share of spending on R & D - it's still the iPhone, which "eats" almost a third of the budget.