元器件交易网讯 4月24日消息，据外媒报道，苹果在过去的一年半时间里收购了24家公司。

　　苹果CEO蒂姆·库克在接受采访时表示，收购表明苹果不避讳购买他们认为值得的技术。“显然我们在徘徊。”同时，库克补充苹果并没有明确规定，但倾向于低于10亿美元的收购。

　　与此对比明显的是谷歌和Facebook，两者在让人意想不到的领域中收购了大量的公司，媒体分析其目的在于争夺互联网网关。从10亿美元到收购WhatsApp的190亿美元，竞争的升温使得收购价格一路飙升。

　　“我们的目标不是通过收购造成轰动，”库克说，但“我们会增加收购的数量。”（元器件交易网毛毛  译）

　　以下为原文：

　　Apple ‘On the Prowl,’ Bought 24 CompaniesIn 18 Months

　　Most of the headlines about techacquisitions these days come from Google and Facebook, but Apple’s been prettyactive, too.

　　The iPhone maker says it has purchased twodozen companies in the past year and a half–though, of course, Apple rarelydiscloses what exactly it bought or for how much.

　　Still, Tim Cook, the company’s chiefexecutive, said in an interview Wednesday that Apple’s pace of acquisitions arean indication the company isn’t shy about buying technology it thinks isworthwhile. “Obviously, we’re on the prowl,” he said.

　　He added that Apple doesn’t have rulesabout acquisitions, though it tends to stay below $1 billion. “We’re not anti-getting a big company,” he said. “What we’re anti- doing is doing somethingthat’s not strategic.”

　　In other words, “we’re not looking to paythe most and get the most buzz out of it,” Cook added, during a conversation atApple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

　　The obvious comparison is with Google andFacebook, which have actively battled over various companies in unexpectedsectors. A recent example is Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone companythat Google ultimately bought. But that wasn’t before Facebook courted thecompany.

　　Part of the reason for this rivalry heatingup is that Facebook and Google are starting to crowd into one another’s space.As the WSJ discussed in a story last year, the two companies are vying tobecome the gateways to the Internet. And as their businesses have started tocompete (Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp vs. Google Hangouts, Facebook’s photosvs. Picasa/Google+, etc.) so have their respective acquisition targets.

　　The result is that acquisitions have gonefrom $1 billion attention-grabbing headlines to $19 billion for WhatsApp, andother such lofty purchases.

　　“Our objective is not to make a big splash with an acquisition,” Cooksaid. But, he added, “you’ll see us do more.”