It worked fine for MS.<p>I think Apple have no where to go than to buy companies. In fact most of their revolutionary products were products or technologies they bought.<p>It&#x27;s typical apple strategy, they are just worth so much now that it&#x27;s hard to see their acquisitions as anything but a drop in the water. Until now I guess.<p>They could buy Twitter, they could buy Box (or dropbox) or some other cloud solution, they could buy Stripe, they could buy Slack, they could buy so many companies and use their size to leverage those into something truly groundbreaking.<p>So I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s that far out.