Apple has acquired 9 companies for six months, and this is just the beginning

Became knownThat for the past six months, Apple has acquired nine companies, and the rate of the frequency of such deals this year ahead of the pace in 2012 without fanfare.

As part of the AllThingsD D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company made 9 shopping in less than 7 months and has no plans to slow down in soon: "Last year we were going to get one company approximately every 70 days, so that in the end to buy 6 or 7 companies per year. This year we have already bought nine companies. " May is coming to an end, and yet the speed performance of acquisitions in Apple's incredible mark - one purchase every 23 days. It is not known what kind of purchase, but Cook said that they will talk about it "when it is needed." At present the company is not going to make "major acquisition", but Cook said he was not opposed to such a step, if the result of the purchase will be a great product.

As for the acquisition of services such as Facebook, then Cook says that he never thought that Apple needs a social network: "We and so have social services like iMessage and Game Center ». It should be noted that at last year's conference D10 Apple CEO announced the imminent closure of the now defunct social music service Ping.

According to rumors, in January, Apple has its eye on Waze, crowdsourcing navigation application, which is reported to be very interested in Google and Facebook. Cook, however, said that Apple does not claim to such a service.

In the history of Apple has a purchase with the future in one of the most prominent examples is purchased in 2010. Siri. In July 2012 the company bought AuthenTec's, which specializes in biometric security technology, this transaction gave rise to rumors that the next iPhone will be "trained" identification Fingerprint.