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Apple Acquired 24 Companies Over Last 18 Months, 'We're On The Prowl' for More

B F D. You'd be doing your user base a bigger favor by purchasing (or leasing) the rights to Rosetta. You'd have 14% of your OS market suddenly finding a reason to buy your Darth Vadar spaghetti-strewn Mac Pro. But, no, stubborn fools that you are, you refused to even consider Rosetta. And 14% of Mac user is actually quite a lot.
 
macbreakweekly said:
I think that joke fell flat.
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No joke. It seems like more and more podcasts can't be played in iTunes due to being some "QuickTime" format or another, and for as bloated as iTunes is, it's incapable of playing anything but a single video codec.

Between iOS & OS X, Apples handling of video is embarrassingly atrocious. Worse than an afterthought.

It seems all the money in the world still cant buy Apple the basics of video playback. But who cares about the functionality of the product...
 
thekeyring said:
Buy Samsung and shut down all but the A-series chip manufacturing part. :')
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That will never happen, besides Samsung producs a lot of products, like refrigerators, TVs, memory, SSD. Apple may have a ton of cash but they'll not be able to do that, plus it would never pass anti-trust muster.
 
Zoolevation said:
I think Apple has no interest in McDonalds.
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Hey oh!

It's damn impressive for any company, Apple, Google, whoever, to be able to successfully acquire 24 companies in 1.5 years. the due diligence and merging processes alone would be a massive undertaking. And to simply know what they need to acquire next is such a forward thinking, don't get this wrong kind of task.
 
Codyak said:
Apple must FEED.
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Yes, the circle of life
The larger companies eat the smaller ones unless the smaller ones manage to grow big in which then they might eat the used-to-be bigger companies or they might just become competition and kill the companies instead of eating them or maybe they'll invest in them.
 
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Apple, please buy GoPro.

Could totally integrate it with iPhotos and Aperture.
 
Apple should acquire Dashlane

It is a password manager that works across platforms and is very Apple-like.
 
keysofanxiety said:
Your ignorance offends me.
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Your offendedness is ignorant.

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Iconoclysm said:
As was already said, no matter where I go, I'm offended by complete ignorance. Thing is, I'm not even sure these people understand they are trolls.
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You belong in a society of drones, where everyone thinks alike (or not at all). That way you won't be "offended".

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Nunyabinez said:
Situation: Apple not buying companies. Reaction: Why don't you spend some of your cash?

Situation: Apple acquires companies. Reaction: You're just manipulating your stock price.

Translation: The latest fad is criticizing Apple. It makes small people feel big.
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It could be said that your blind devotion to Apple also serves to make you people feel big. Like somehow you're sharing in Apple's success. Aligning yourself with the "winners"!
 
So much for competition being a good thing.

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i4m said:
Your offendedness is ignorant.

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You belong in a society of drones, where everyone thinks alike (or not at all). That way you won't be "offended".

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It could be said that your blind devotion to Apple also serves to make you people feel big. Like somehow you're sharing in Apple's success. Aligning yourself with the "winners"!
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Fascinating viewpoints... if everybody adopted the same mannerisms as each other, the world might be a better place. Or worse. It depends on the mannerisms, and what we give value and merit to...

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steve333 said:
Quicklogic.
Before Samsung does
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In the business world, everyone copies each other. That goes back to Xerox vs Apple over the GUI, and even before that. Saying one company is evil and the other is uber-good is ridiculous, regardless of who gets the labels...

MacDude21 said:
Yes, the circle of life
The larger companies eat the smaller ones unless the smaller ones manage to grow big in which then they might eat the used-to-be bigger companies or they might just become competition and kill the companies instead of eating them or maybe they'll invest in them.
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And once there's a monopoly, don't complain when prices skyrocket. People want the system, so they have no right to complain. (at least as a generalization, there are always facets to the issues...)
 
JPSaltzman said:
B F D. You'd be doing your user base a bigger favor by purchasing (or leasing) the rights to Rosetta. You'd have 14% of your OS market suddenly finding a reason to buy your Darth Vadar spaghetti-strewn Mac Pro. But, no, stubborn fools that you are, you refused to even consider Rosetta. And 14% of Mac user is actually quite a lot.
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Apple licensed the underlying rights to Rosetta from a third party company just prior to when they migrated to the Intel CPU platform. That license expired with the release of Lion and thereafter.

IBM had previously acquired that third party company and is not likely to license (or sell) that technology to Apple for any reasonable price, even if Apple were inclined to do so!
 
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