By extracting data from suppliers, Apple’s chip team has a feedback loop into product planning. All of this collective wisdom adds up, helping Apple decide what to roll-up, buy, license, or outsource. Imagine seeing your competition’s entire feature roadmap, and then planning your own SoC [System on a chip] strategy. It’s like seeing your neighbor’s wife naked, and deciding afterward whether you’re interested, even though you’re already married.
The SoC statement is completely understandable and the logical conclusion of several paragraphs of clear prose. Then a strange analogy about having an affair with a neighbor's wife is introduced. Analogies are good when they clear up complicated situations. They are bad when they make clear situations confusing.
My guess is the author has been thinking a lot about affairs lately.
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