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Apple Announces $3 Billion Beats Acquisition, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Joining the Company
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Because, Apple and Tesla have been meeting lately, and for right now are working together on building a huge battery factory. Apple buying Tesla could very well happen in the future anyways. It makes sense. Sell an iPhone for $600, but sell an electric car for $50,000! And not only that, but Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, has governmental ties. Meaning Apple could position themselves for goverment grants for future products that might relate to space exploration and beyond. If you don't think there is big money there, maybe you should go seek that business degree that you lack.
Because, Apple and Tesla have been meeting lately, and for right now are working together on building a huge battery factory. Apple buying Tesla could very well happen in the future anyways. It makes sense. Sell an iPhone for $600, but sell an electric car for $50,000! And not only that, but Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, has governmental ties. Meaning Apple could position themselves for goverment grants for future products that might relate to space exploration and beyond. If you don't think there is big money there, maybe you should go seek that business degree that you lack.
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That's about as accurate as saying Apple employed only a single person: Steve Jobs. Beats has more than two employees.
Now that that is said and done perhaps they can focus in the TV and movie side of things cause that needs serious help.
Starting with the fact that Jobs promised us that Extras would be coming back to the Apple TV years ago.
Starting with the fact that Jobs promised us that Extras would be coming back to the Apple TV years ago.
They're emotional Bigoted Morons...they don't deal in facts based off Logic. Like I said if it was Bono rather than Dre....we would not see this backlash
Why would buying Tesla be a bad idea.
1) First Apple is always looking for better battery in smaller form factor, so is Tesla.
2) Apple is looking into collecting more location based data, what's better than having your own brand of cars running around 24/7?
3) Carplay.
It's not a one to one match, but Tesla is a nice technology acquisition. But of course Elon Musk is not looking to sell Tesla either.
Amen to that. Life is an education for all of us. And it's an inspiration to see people succeed, regardless of their background or roots.
Well, sure, Musk could sell Apple the Gigafactory or something like that, but thats not Tesla. Musk has his fingers in many many pies that are not Tesla.
I just *hate* it when you go into shop to buy a few groceries and come out with a $50,000 impulse purchase.
Yes, why speculate on a message board, particularly when you're trying to comment on a company's culture, which as seen as one of the main reasons for their success.
You're conflating content negotiations with business models, market decisions and corporate culture. Completely different.
I don't have any Beats, but according to pretty much everyone here, they're horrendous in both price and quality, so what can Apple do?
They can't/won't/shouldn't lower the price, as they'll be eating away at their own profit margins, but surely it would only cost comparative pennies to improve the quality of the build and the audio of all Beats?
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I prefer bass heavy head phones honestly...as long as its clean bass. I dont' like how regular iPhones have no base at all. You end up turning the sound all the way up just so you can hear the bass.
I pity the fool who spent $300 on a beats headphone. I pity the "insanely great" fool who spent $3 billion on the beats company. Oh snap, I'm a shareholder of the insanely great fool.
Here's what I read behind their smile:
Iovine: Let Dre get the fame, but I'm the greatest benefactor in this deal at 25% of 3 billion.
T. Diddy Cook: Kick backs.
Dre: Hurry up, I'm the first billionaire in Hip Hop and I need to go make youtube videos with my boy Tyrese.
Cue: Why do I have to work with these two? Maybe it's because Ive said this deal is "bollocks".
Oh Steve, I miss you. You'd have asked Beats for $3 billion to take on their rubbish headphones and killed this kind of non-sense the movement that Tyrese video came out.
Here's what I read behind their smile:
Iovine: Let Dre get the fame, but I'm the greatest benefactor in this deal at 25% of 3 billion.
T. Diddy Cook: Kick backs.
Dre: Hurry up, I'm the first billionaire in Hip Hop and I need to go make youtube videos with my boy Tyrese.
Cue: Why do I have to work with these two? Maybe it's because Ive said this deal is "bollocks".
Oh Steve, I miss you. You'd have asked Beats for $3 billion to take on their rubbish headphones and killed this kind of non-sense the movement that Tyrese video came out.
As long as this keeps Dre behind a desk and away from making more fluff, cliché watered-down pop and hip-hop, I'm calling this a win.
Cook is covering the iWatch with his right hand over his left hand
Iovine and Cue covering their iWatches with their sleeves oddly far down over their hands (and hand in pocket and hand behind Dre)
Cook is still mad at Dre for making that video so he didn't get his iWatch yet
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)Don't know why but I'd feel better if it was just Iovine staying with Apple and Dr. Dre fully moving on.....
Nope, just a tiny drop in the ocean. An American drugs company just tried a British drugs company for around 68 billion pounds sterling and they still said no.
Anyway, I get the feeling this was definitely all Cooks idea because Jobs would make a service himself, not buy one so publically.
A changing Apple indeed, and I still can't see what the will offer bar Spotify integrated with iTunes. And headphones of questionable sound quality. They'll be poaching Will.I.Am from Intel next!
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