Apple Just Made Its Second-Biggest Acquisition Ever After Beats

[quietstormSD]

Israel has the best tech in the world, well done apple

I disagree. We have an office in Israel at a tech company we work at and they are low performers, I can't imagine the "tech" that comes out of there.

 

[lapstags]

Why is standard acquisition by Apple political? Was the Beats acquisition in the Political forum?

I’m sure certain posters hated that acquisition because the founder is a Black man.

 

[CATiNTHESTORE]

I’m not surprised

 

[Tr55]

Why is standard acquisition by Apple political? Was the Beats acquisition in the Political forum?

Good question, especially since Israeli technology is critical and even fundamental to much of the tech world.

It’s remarkable that a population of 10 million (15 million worldwide) have accomplished this, while the rest of the region, crickets.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Wait hold on, they paid 2B for this when they could have bought perplexity for the same price? The ****

 

[iObama]

Good question, especially since Israeli technology is critical and even fundamental to much of the tech world.

It’s remarkable that a population of 10 million (15 million worldwide) have accomplished this, while the rest of the region, crickets.

Perhaps because Israel hasn’t been plundered for resources via “war” by the West for a century?

 

[The_Martini_Cat]

Wake me up when Siri can actually transcribe the words I say correctly. Or ... having correctly transcribed them, does NOT remove some of them & edit others, screwing it up totally? I am SO sure that is going to work well with facial expressions. 🍸😸😼😹🙀👀🍸

 

[Abydos]

I thought ICE stood for internal combustion engine

 

[GeoStructural]

They have a track record of hiring Israeli startups.

Israel has a long history of innovation and revolutionary startups. I don’t know right now, but at some point it was only second to Silicon Valley.

 

[grammatica]

The founder of this firm must be crazy rich now. $350 billion for PrimeSense and $2 billion for this new firm.

 

[vantelimus]

Body language and micro expressions are not universal. They vary across cultures, neurotype, relationships, and social context. I see this going the way Siri has gone up until now. It will be years of mediocre integration and then eventually outsourced if others make it useful.

 

[bLackjackj]

Wait hold on, they paid 2B for this when they could have bought perplexity for the same price? The ****

It wasent about the money. They already have a billion dollar relationship with Google. Google is far better positioned than the Perplexity startup,..clearly.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

It wasent about the money. They already have a billion dollar relationship with Google. Google is far better positioned than the Perplexity startup,..clearly.

Those are different goals. They still need and apparently plan to make their own model, and they just suck at it, so buying perplexity would have helped them

 

[steve333]

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, and conflating them is intellectually dishonest and lazy. You’re the first one to mention “the jews.”

Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism as has been proven in the attacks on Jews in other Countries.

 

[steve333]

From Britannica:

Zionism, Jewish nationalist movement with the goal of the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine

The British controlled the area, before that the Ottomans, before that a different country.
By the way, this was the original plan

 

[svish]

Good to know. Maybe they will have key technologies that will be used in the upcoming AR glasses. Looking forward to seeing the device.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Let’s get real. Israel is notorious for spying on its allies. They bring gifts to American politicians and every single time they get scanned, they find bugs in them. Pagers with bombs in them. I got the ick just reading that apple would acquire a company from this country. Then I read these Israeli developers are joining Apple’s team. That is OMINOUS in ways we may not see realised until much later. If we want to start doomsaying, Apple devices could turn into a global network of bugs for Israel to prosecute its critics.

You’re that paranoid about Israel but you think this is what it takes for the Mossad to finally crack Apple?

Apple has agents working for it from NSA, FSB, Mossad, you name it. Guaranteed. If they don’t then those agencies are no good at their jobs.

 

[knappeduivel]

It’s amazing how anti-Israel people are but they don’t seem to care about all the atrocities other countries commit

you are amazed by your own speculation

 

[knappeduivel]

I’m looking forward to blocking anything Q.ai’s tech can do in upcoming Apple products.

You probably only have to frown

 

[oldwatery]

wtf with the subtle antisemitism in the posts. Im muslim and though israeli government policy is crap and genocidal, don't diss the jews. Israel has some great engineers and startup scene. Diss the government policy not the individuals who work hard at tech like this

You are the one making it antisemitic. No one mentioned Jews. The problem people have is with Israel.

 

[oldwatery]

If you don’t like Israeli tech, stop using your phone and MacBook then, practice what you preach, the anti semetic comments on here just because the word Israel is mentioned shows us Jews why we need Israel.

Well this Jew has read no antisemitic posts just anti Israeli. There is a huge difference.

 

[oldwatery]

I'm not a Zionist myself, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that a lot of antisemites say "Israel" when they really mean "the Jews." Not all, but a damn lot.

Speculating to prove a point doesn’t make it true. The comments clearly refer to the Israeli genocide situation and their very obvious strengths with spyware etc. Not all, but a dam lot!

 

[chmania]

Windows XP was also done by the Israelis...

 

[geta]

I’m looking forward to blocking anything Q.ai’s tech can do in upcoming Apple products.

Don't forget to block Face ID and some other tech innovations that you use on a daily basis that came from there. 👍

 

[TroyBoy30]

I doubt it. I bet he pretty much much hates everything Trump does. As any sane person would.

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