Apple Inc. spent a record **** billion U.S. dollars on research and development in its 2024 fiscal year, increasing by about *** billion from its 2023 total. The company’s massive research and development budget over the years has led to the release of various famous products including the iPhone, iPod, MacBook, and iPad. In 2024, the company released their first VR headset, the Apple Vision Pro. Apple Inc. Since its famous beginning in a garage in California, Apple has grown into a tech industry giant, today holding the title of the world’s most valuable brand. The company released over a dozen new products in 2023, with new generations of its iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad being released. In addition to its consumer electronics products, the company develops a variety of software packages, applications, web browsers, and more recently, cloud technology offerings. On November 1, 2019, with the official launch of its ambitious Apple TV+, Apple also entered the over-the-top media service market, albeit late to the already competitive game. Apple’s massive range of compatible products and software bring in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue each year and made it the first public company whose market value reaches the ****trillion U.S. dollar landmark.

Amazon spent the most on research and development in the fiscal year 2022, with over ** billion U.S. dollars. Meta, Alphabet, Apple, and Huawei rounded out the top five of companies with the highest R&D spending that year. Leading by innovation Spending money on research and development, or R&D, is how a company innovates new technologies and conducts research to develop new products and services. R&D allows companies, such as Amazon, to stay ahead of their competition and work towards the future. Most of the R&D spending in the world in 2021 was within health & pharma, which should be seen in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the United States is the leading country for R&D expenditure in the world. AI and R&D Currently, many companies are investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation, including the ethical implications of AI and how it can be used to better society as a whole. Major companies, such as Amazon and Alphabet, are throwing their collective weight into this issue and conducting research into its future applications.

In 2023, the technology hardware manufacturer that spent the most on research and development (R&D) was the American giant Apple, with an R&D expenditure of over ** billion euros. Close behind came Chinese Huawei with a spending of almost ** billion euros, followed by Intel. The European hardware company with the highest R&D spending in 2023 was Ericsson.

Cette statistique présente les dépenses en recherche et développement (R&D) de la société Apple dans le monde entre 2007 et 2024, en milliards de dollars des États-Unis. Alors qu'en 2007 Apple investissait moins d'un milliard de dollars dans la recherche et développement, le pôle R&D était financé à hauteur de près de 31,37 milliards de dollars américains au cours de son exercice fiscal en 2024, soit une augmentation d'environ 10 milliards par rapport au total de 2021. L'énorme budget de recherche et développement de l'entreprise au fil des ans a conduit à la sortie de plusieurs produits célèbres, notamment l'iPhone, l'iPod, le MacBook et l'iPad. En 2024, l'entreprise a commercialisé son premier casque VR, l'Apple Vision Pro.