They could even acquire TSMC if push came to shove. Their large cash holdings gives Apple so much strategic leverage.

You realize that TSMC is way bigger than Apple, right? Apple’s entire current cash reserves would be enough to buy 1% of the company.

I would not expect an acknowledgement or recall of the drives that also have issue and have not been officially confirmed to have issues.

Which has resulted in, at least for me, zero sales of these drives, because I have no idea if the drives in stock at distribution have the old firmware or the new firmware. You can’t expect your average consumer to check and update the firmware on a drive, so without a recall or a new model, I’m just not touching these drives at all, because I don’t need my customers complaining about lost data.