Apple has cash on hand totaling more than 165 billion US dollars at the moment. Bloomberg predicts that Apple, the most valuable company in the world, will begin a significant acquisition given its current slowdown in growth.
In contrast to large acquisitions like those of Microsoft and Amazon, Apple is more likely to buy up small start-ups. Apple is more open to making investments in the form of incubation and cultivation. Apple will be patiently awaiting the expansion and exploitation of new markets by these startups.
Apple will spend US$306 million on business acquisitions in fiscal year 2022, which is less than the US$1.5 billion spent in fiscal year 2020. Apple chose not to include information about these acquisitions in its most recent quarterly earnings report.
Apple has repaid a large portion of its excess cash to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends rather than making impulsive purchases.
In fiscal 2022, Apple will distribute more than $100 billion in dividends to shareholders. Apple still had $165 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of December 31. Logan Purk, an analyst at the American financial services firm Edward Jones, claimed that Apple excels at making incremental acquisitions and small-scale purchases.
The report claims that Apple will remove all of its services, excluding iCloud, from its iOS 11, macOS High Sierra, watchOS 4, and tvOS 11 operating systems. That implies that all Apple services will no longer be supported on devices running the iOS 11 operating system, Mac OS High Sierra, watchOS 4, and tvOS 11 operating systems. Apple and other sources have not offered any justification for this impending change. Currently, some services like iMessage, FaceTime, etc. can be used on older Apple devices.
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