Apple a 33% increased spending on research and development for the year

Apple in the I quarter of 2013 increased by one-third the cost of research and development in comparison with the data for the same period in 2012. For information about the company transferred to the Office of the American stock exchange regulator. If the manufacturer of the iPhone and iPad will continue to invest in R & D at the same rate, by the end of the year on the cost of this cost will be more than $ 4 billion

As the Cybersecurity, for the first three months of 2013 Apple spent on research and development of $ 1.119 billion, up from $ 841 million a year earlier. For the first six months of fiscal year 2013, ended March 30, Apple investments in research and development totaled $ 2.129 billion in the same period last year, the company spent only $ 1,599 billion

In official documents, Apple said that the investment in the last three months have been focused around some new products, as well as the empowerment of existing solutions. Corporation did not specify what, exactly, is at stake. In addition, the documents said that investment companies are required to maintain its position in this highly competitive market of mobile devices and computers.

At the same time, in different sizes investment products from Apple completely identical. Is not difficult to guess, most of the investment is directly related to the iPhone and iPad, the costs of research and development around which grew by 6.6% and 65.25%, respectively. At the same time, the lion's share of spending on R & D - it's still the iPhone, which "eats" 37.4% of the budget. Coming up with 19.50% should be iPad. At the same time, the company cuts development costs associated with the Mac and iPod. On the first drop was 1.3%, whereas in the second, a record 27.9%.