(All Things D)

Oh, the fun of digging through Apple's 10-K financial filing. All Things D's John Paczkowski points out that Cupertino has earmarked $7.1 billion for "nonretail capital expenditures," and speculates that it's to build out iCloud's network infrastructure. The key reason? iCloud's underlying networking is rumored to currently be built on the back of technologies from Microsoft and Amazon. There's keeping your enemies close, then there's keeping your enemies too close.

(Business Insder)

Speaking of rivalries, it seems that the top Apple brass is all for . According to analyst Ben Reitzes, who met with Messrs. Cook and Oppenheimer, the executives from Cupertino are sanguine about the Kindle Fire's prospects, since it further fragments Android. And, as we all know from Godzilla films, it's way more fun to stomp on many itty bitty buildings tablet platforms.

(DigiTimes)