Yes, but look at the counter side of it, Apple were hitched to Intel's wagon for CPUs and their laptop line got slowly demolished until Apple had to take over the task themselves (admittedly with expertise they'd largely already developed with the iPhone, which similarly came in house from places like Imagination Tech).

Tim Apple is famous for very few things but

> We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make

If AI is as big as we think it will be, Apple thinks they need to own it.