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Apple to Make an Offer to Acquire ARM?
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Oh yea, and then our iPhone bills go up...
Then there's no competitive innovations and we're stuck with the iPhone 4G for the next 20 years...
sounds real cool.
You are right... I think the proper word is evil! Yeah... Much better know! Thank you!
I don't know if anyone else has said this (and I am not doing to dredge through pages to find out), but Apple didn't "sell" ARM.
ARM = Acorn RISC Machine. It was developed by the little-known Acorn (who, if you think about it were a bit ahead of the curve back then) who wanted a new processor to power their machines. It was spun off into its own business when Apple got involved, and I believe they took a shareholding. But they didn't wholly own it.
Are there any Japanese tech companies owned by foreigners?
I still don't understand the fascination with Nintendo being brought by Apple. Nintendo doesn't do yearly updates of hardware like Apple...
You are right... I think the proper word is evil! Yeah... Much better know! Thank you!
Man. I guess making great products that people want is pure evil.
Other corporations that have the "one less olive" approach to business and make mediocre products and spend their time maximizing profits by constantly laying off workers and restructuring are much less evil?
Or are you one of those that believe that all corporations are evil? In which case, the solution is simple. Don't support them by not purchasing their goods.
Consumers? Anybody who's not an Apple fanatic?
Sometimes I wonder if blindly loyal Apple fans will eventually become the biggest detriment to the brand. Microsoft fanboys are also annoying to me, but at least they're generally lacking the hypocrisy of first supporting David before bending over backward to support the Goliath he eventually became. Apple is quickly becoming today's Microsoft and you're still supporting them like nothing has changed. Never thought I'd see that happen, but then again maybe I still have too much faith in my fellow humans. All I know is that the more the fans praise every potentially anti-competitive move the more convinced I am that Apple has gotten too big already. I ended any future purchases of theirs once they started their own frivolous lawsuits as that was the final straw.
Oh yea, and then our iPhone bills go up...
Then there's no competitive innovations and we're stuck with the iPhone 4G for the next 20 years...
sounds real cool.
None of that make sense.
Apple doesn't control what you get charged to use your iPhone. Your carrier determines that.
And, Apple's modus operandi does not suggest that you'd be stuck with an iPhone 4G for the next 20 years. If you use their home computers as an example you'd know that Apple refreshes the hardware and brings out new OS versions on a regular basis. That trend has also been seen in their iPhone product. I don't see why it would change.
What you're saying doesn't sound cool because it's just not correct.
I can't even begin to imagine how upset you would be if say MS bought ARM and denied the tech for iPhones. But when Apple does it you vote good. Crazy.
In 1999 apple sold 2 million of the 9.2 million shares it owned at the time, reducing it's investment of ARM to 14.8%
http://news.cnet.com/Short-Take-Apple-sells-ARM-shares/2110-1001_3-221149.html
Did they sell any more at a later date?
"Thinking big" and saying "8 Billion doesn't mean anything to Apple" are not the same thing. Since S. Jobs is in a such a gabby mood these days why don't you email him and ask him if 8 Billion dollars means much to him. Then you can post his response here and if he says something like "Yeah, 8 Billion is nothing. I use it to wipe my ass with." then you can say "Really!" and that's without a question mark.
What an ingenious way to shut down supply to the Competition.... when the supply contracts expire.
I would never get such answer from him. There are so many words...
Possible answers are yes, no or not to worry...
Sorry but ARM is primarily a consumer brand! You obviously are not aware of their business and how VERY concentrated on the consumer space their technology's are.
Name me 20 smartphones in the past 5yrs ... I can gaurantee that at least half of them are made with technology based on ARM cpu reference design; unless you concentrate ONLY on RIM BlackBerry's or HTC WinMobile phones.
Yet you offer none in your post.
No...hold on. Forget that...spare us the idiocy that will inevitably spew forth from your computer.
Being bad for tons of people does not make it a monopoly. It's no more a monopoly than GM owning Delco or Nokia owning Navteq.
The is already in the bag. Relax people. Apple knows what they're doing. They are one of the few great American companies left in the world. They deserve it.