&gt; company that basically does nothing but buy things from other companies and puts them in a shiny box<p>I think you are referring to samsung or other company building screens or other parts for apple, you have to realize that apple is the one who develops specs and ideas for these things to be built and is only using Samsung and LG for their manufacturing resources because they are leaders in actual manufacturing.<p>It&#x27;s like praising a construction workers for building a bridge that was designed by a extremely talented engineer, all the praise for designing a functional bridge should go to the engineer who designed it. It&#x27;s easy to follow instructions, it&#x27;s incredibly hard to come up with something that was never done before and create specs for a construction worker (samsung factory) to actually build it.