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Apple Announces $3 Billion Beats Acquisition, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre Joining the Company
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I'm just waiting for Apple to rename it to iBeat and then use Siri to give voice commands for turning it off and on..
Then my life will be complete when I walk around town and hear everyone telling their phone, "iBeat off"
Then my life will be complete when I walk around town and hear everyone telling their phone, "iBeat off"
Let Apple's design team get a hold of them...we'll see some nice changes. But again, this deal has nothing to do with the gear and everything to do with Iovine.
What an absolute load of bull. Tim Cook's ears must have the audio fidelity of a submerged rock. I sincerely hoped Apple would rather develop dynamic range headphones than go down the route of the artificially heavy-bass codswallop Beats headphones.
Sincerely, sincerely disappointing. I just really hope there's a greater motive behind this.
You're not selling anything you will fall in line just like everyone else
lol between a company that just built a prototype self driving car vs a company that bought a headphone company for 3 billion. It's really not a hard decision.
Apple got beaten by Dr Dre!
I know Apple execs know better than I do but there are better buys for 3Bill....
I know Apple execs know better than I do but there are better buys for 3Bill....
You do realize that Beats pays to have their products placed in these videos, don't you?
But Beats bought MOG a year ago and acquired their streaming rights with the sale (obviously). So MOG must have had transferable streaming rights in their original contract - probably because the music industry never saw them "transferring" all he way to Apple.
SJ doesnt matter now, what should matter is logic and apple's vision. If apple felt Beats is an essential part of reaching its long term goals - then it was a good buy. We wont know it yet, Apples BOD approved it and I am sure they arnt ill-informed billionaires themselves.
But that would require people here to actually educate themselves and look at something rationally. I think you're expecting too much of the internet. Childish knee-jerk reactions without much deep thought or insight is pretty much all we get here.
Makes me wonder where Apple as a company is going. If I don't align well with these guys, their brand and service, will this continue to be the company I have admired for the past 30+ years? Let's hope it doesn't signal something more significant in terms of company direction.
And I hope they also give the choice of bundling future iPhones with sand and mud to rub in your ears, which will give the same audio quality as Beats. But for a cheaper price.
That's actually not quite what you said. You said the "black community" (as if there's such a thing
) suggesting that wave upon wave of black people will decry this and call him an uncle tom and a sell out. Well I say again, respectfully, that that's a load of bollox.
Sure, you might get a handful of people that call him a sellout (why, I can't imagine). But that would hardly be "the black community"
RTP.
