It’s a large technology company and has significant funding to invest. But I see that Apple doesn’t own or co-own a submarine cable with another company, and I tried searching for it on Submarine Cable Map, but nothing came up.
Apple has its own servers, but also uses third-party servers for its services like iCloud. Meta has its own submarine cables, because Apple doesn’t own a submarine cable or doesn’t share ownership.
The bulk of apple’s business is selling consumer electronic hardware. no submarine cables needed for that.
they do some cloud services, but not nearly the volume that requires meta-level infrastructure.