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Apple Becoming More Serious About Corporate Acquisitions?

Mactagonist said:
Palm has good software engineers and by buying them Apple prevents someone else from acquiring them. .
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You do realize most of those people LEFT Apple for Palm.

I agree with the Apple buying Adobe statements. I think they should buy Adobe and then just scrap the PC side of things and make Creative Suite an Apple only software... ala Logic and FCP.
 
re: MobileME, etc.

Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea -- although I'm really not sure which company would make sense to purchase to accomplish this?

Really, I think Apple has finally made MobileME "just good enough" to justify its price. In the past, that wasn't the case at all. But really, if you look at the yearly cost for another "online data backup/storage" service that lets you store the same amount of data as MobileME, and the cost for annual web site hosting with email account someplace - you're probably at around the same cost as MobileME right there. Plus, MobileME is integrated more tightly with Apple's products than other services will be, and you get the other benefits like the "Find my iPhone" and the "Back to my Mac" (which honestly has some serious limitations, but is pretty good for the home user with only one Mac connected directly to a cable or DSL modem).

I agree though... it has performance issues with things like web-mail (but then, so does Yahoo mail which AT&T uses by default as my email provider).




gstylez said:
They need to buy a company that can take MobileMe to the next level. I mean the only thing I like is the mobile gallery and find your iPhone. Everything else SUCKS. Using your email on the browser has major issues and is slow plus I when I send an email it does not add it to my Sent box. This is a paid service and I expect the mail to be as good as gmail damn it.
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Apple should buy NETLIST (NLST)

This would instantly thrust Apple into cloud computing, memory, and virtualization to such a degree that they could immediately start competing on a large scale with Cisco without losing their focus on the consumer.
 
Who?

my list:

No, heck no!
  • Palm - 2.28B - Dell should buy Palm not Apple
  • Eastman Kodak - 1.33B - only buyout their patent portfolio - not the company (too many negatives, debts)
  • Nintendo - uhm they are bigger than Sony
  • AMD - 5.9B - oh man, Intel would through a hissy fit (well, so would a lot of clone makers).

Maybe
  • Adobe - 18.82B - only really for the patents and technology - they are doing a wonderful job of destroying their own products
  • Avid - 504.59M - own the video market
  • NVidia - 9.5B - patents, mobile GPU

This could be cool
  • ARM - 2.5B - a large share (not a take over) would prevent some problems
  • Imagination Technologies - 975.6M - again, a larger share to counter others
  • Luxology - private? - great 3D (modo) and graphics app (imageSynth)
  • Pixel Qi - private - if the screens really is as good as they say, just buy it all
 
roocka said:
This would instantly thrust Apple into cloud computing, memory, and virtualization to such a degree that they could immediately start competing on a large scale with Cisco without losing their focus on the consumer.
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Apple does not allow there software to be virtualized though.
 
macduke said:
Yeah, they need to buy someone who makes file transfers easier and MUCH faster. I doubt their new server farm will do much. It just seems like they are inefficient.

In my ideal world, they would also buy Nintendo. As to whether or not that makes business sense: hell if I know?!? I don't even know how much Nintendo costs. I just want all their games and tech melted with everything that makes Apple a great hardware / software designing company. Haha, iWii. Gross. But seriously, I think Apple could seriously clean up in the games space.
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I too think that apple could really do something big in the video games market. Ever since I became a fan of apple I have thought that apple should make a game console to compete with the Xbox. Perhaps apple could cut the apple TV and make a game system with all the same functionality, but it also plays games. This is essentially what the Xbox can do right now.

Also, I think that apple should acquire Foxconn so they can manufacture their products them selves. However, I have absolutely zero clue if this makes any sense at all from a business standpoint, it might be the worst idea ever. Whatever apple does though, I can hardly imagine them doing anything stupid.
 
Zimbra: the One That Got Away?

I really think Apple missed a golden opportunity to strengthen both its Mobile Me offering and Mac OS X Server when Zimbra, the most-credible Microsoft Exchange replacement, was acquired by Yahoo for US$350 million in 2007. And now that Yahoo has just dumped Zimbra -- whose product has only advanced in the intervening time with the 5.0 and 6.0 releases -- onto VMWare at a price lower than that US$350MM, it seems Apple has let the opportunity pass again.

I mean, SquirrelMail's great and all, for 1998, but a lot of us expect more out of Mac OS X Server.
 
As a shareholder also, I would love to see them buy Tivo. That would get them into people's tv area of their homes even quicker. People love the service, and as good as the interface is, Apple would only make it better, especially compared to the cable companies' DVRs.
 
rfrankl said:
As a shareholder also, I would love to see them buy Tivo. That would get them into people's tv area of their homes even quicker. People love the service, and as good as the interface is, Apple would only make it better, especially compared to the cable companies' DVRs.
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Given Tivo's fiscal performance that would be a mistake
 
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