Realnetworks and Apple both after Roxio

jholzner

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Jun 17, 2003

• #1

According to looprumors.com both Apple AND RealNetworks are wanting to purchase Roxio. I guess Realnetworks only has $300,000,000 in cash on hand so it looks like Apple shouldn't have much trouble winning if it really wants to.

 

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pEZ

macrumors 6502

• Jun 17, 2003

• #2

Let's analyze this, shall we? RealNetworks is the devil to all things Mac. Roxio is the God of the CD-Burning world, especially the Mac.

RealNetworks + Roxio = bad
Apple + Roxio = good

 

Doctor Q

Administrator

Staff member

• Jun 17, 2003

• #3

I'd love to see Toast as part of standard Apple software. It's just one more complication in life that Mac OS lets you burn certain types of CDs in certain ways, and you need Toast to handle other situations. With Roxio, Apple could bundle in all that Toast does.

 

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saabmp3

macrumors 6502a

• Jun 18, 2003

• #4

Isn't 300 million still a fair amount of cash? That should be PLENTY to buy out Roxio. They arn't THAT big of a company.

BEN

 

jholzner

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Jun 18, 2003

• #5

Originally posted by saabmp3
Isn't 300 million still a fair amount of cash? That should be PLENTY to buy out Roxio. They arn't THAT big of a company.

BEN

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Yeah, but Apple has 4 Billion in cash...so they could easily outbid Realnetworks.