Apple acquiring a company about every 2-3 weeks


9 to 5 Mac:

Apple is notoriously quiet about its acquisitions, especially when it comes to smaller companies and startups. While Cook didn’t give anything anyway in relation to the types of companies Apple has recently acquired, he did share that it has purchased up to 25 in just the last six months.

He noted that ends up being a rate of an acquisition "on average, every two or three weeks."

I'm not sure about the rate, but for years Apple has been regularly purchasing small companies. Some times the purchase is directly related to an upcoming product or feature and other times it just supplements staffing and intellectual property.