Every partnership Apple enters must result in Apple winning and the other party simply being a subservient cog
So, no one wants to do business with them in new markets where Apple doesn't have leverage
This is why they couldn't get a manufacturing partner for the now-dead Apple car...no one wanted to be the Foxconn of cars (they do all the work, Apple gets all the credit)
Every partnership Apple enters must result in Apple winning and the other party simply being a subservient cog
So, no one wants to do business with them in new markets where Apple doesn't have leverage
This is why they couldn't get a manufacturing partner for the now-dead Apple car...no one wanted to be the Foxconn of cars (they do all the work, Apple gets all the credit)