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Apple needs to buy Palm!!
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1) Competition is good for us.
2) They left Apple for a reason.
3) I think Apple can do that anyway.
4) Yes, it would. Apple could afford it, but why?
EDIT: Nominated for Worst Thread of the Day.
Apple has $28 billion in cash.
Palm is worth under $2 billion. Still, Apple shouldn't buy them. They don't need anything they have.
But, Apple should buy nVidia and Tivo to improve some of their flagship products. Tivo (integrated into Apple TV) with direct sync to my iPhone would be great.
Tivo is worth just over a billion. And nVidia is worth $6 billion.
Palm is worth under $2 billion. Still, Apple shouldn't buy them. They don't need anything they have.
But, Apple should buy nVidia and Tivo to improve some of their flagship products. Tivo (integrated into Apple TV) with direct sync to my iPhone would be great.
Tivo is worth just over a billion. And nVidia is worth $6 billion.
If you're a significant shareholder in Apple (significant enough that any personal savings or advantages of Apple consumer product improvements are outweighed by the benefit you receive from Apple's profitability), than the notion seems OK, as Apple's cash reserves are approaching $30 billion and Palm is worth $1.8 billion and has less than $400 million in long term debt.
However: 1) There would be tremendous anti-trust scrutiny
2) What premium would Palm investors demand? Will the billions Apple will have to spend outweigh growing the iPhone organically?
3) How would Apple integrate Palm? What about the existing Palm devices that will need support, existing carrier deals, etc, etc. All of that integration costs time/money. The integration would take years.
This would likely be very, very bad, for all cell phone consumers.
Then we should all hire disgruntled employees. Apparently they're more inventive than the happy kind !
Palm couldn't do it on their own.
Just like Apple. Hiring disgruntled IBM, Motorola and AMD employees to design their CPUs, sell their computers, and create graphics chips.
indeedThen we should all hire disgruntled employees. Apparently they're more inventive than the happy kind
Apple must be worse off then. Hiring all those disgruntled IBM, Motorola and AMD employees to design their CPUs, sell their computers, and create graphics chips.
At it again with the historic stuff. So you want me to post all that stuff again and again till you get it. Again Apple and Oranges when it comes to your thinking. You're incapable of understanding or accepting the fact that Apple can truly innovate.
He's jaded and biased... Thirty years of designing devices and UIs can do that to you.
Type "kdarling" into google... he just comments against Apple because he's bored.
Thats what I've figured out whenever he downplays any Apple innovation. The fact that someone has to "brag" about their 30 years... If Apple invented the wheel, he'll justify his argument that an IBM engineer rolled a ball down the hill and Apple hired that guy to develop the wheel. It's irrelevant to him because the guy invented the rolling ball and based the wheel on it for Apple. LOL whatever.
hmmm...what about all the things that Palm did first that Apple ripped off for their iphone OS huh? Phone app anyone?
1) Why would you want to remove competition...they would just then raise prices and you would never get anything at a good price
2) They left apple because they obviously didn't like it.
3) I think they can handle this
4) Buying out is not as easy as you think...
Só you think that exits An entity called apple responsablE for everything
good for you this is a Nice way to avoid complexity
History in this forums are more valuable than current evets that everyone reads and fanatic devotion
Agreed, if there was no competition just think how much we would be paying for a iphone
, and would be doing a lot less then it doing now.Thats not what I said, thats what YOUR saying and trying to hijack this thread.
Ewwww, no, no, no!
Bad move for everyone!
Consumers look the choice!(You know Apple isn't gonna keep WebOS on the market, they'd take it, play with it, maybe put the useful stuff into iPhone OS X)
Apple wastes money(The Pre is a good phone, but nothing in it is so mind blowing, that Apple couldn't do it own their own. It took some ideas used in the iPhone, and made the better. And Apple will likely do the same with iPhone 3.0v)
They is really no reason to buy Palm, Palm will do well now(which is good!), and Apple will still do the same!
I've always had a soft spot for Palm, without owning any of their products. They did impressive stuff in the early days of PDAs, and took to be doing it again!
Bad move for everyone!
Consumers look the choice!(You know Apple isn't gonna keep WebOS on the market, they'd take it, play with it, maybe put the useful stuff into iPhone OS X)
Apple wastes money(The Pre is a good phone, but nothing in it is so mind blowing, that Apple couldn't do it own their own. It took some ideas used in the iPhone, and made the better. And Apple will likely do the same with iPhone 3.0v)
They is really no reason to buy Palm, Palm will do well now(which is good!), and Apple will still do the same!
I've always had a soft spot for Palm, without owning any of their products. They did impressive stuff in the early days of PDAs, and took to be doing it again!
Pretty sure I agree with most of the posts here. What good would be accomplished by Apple buying Palm?
The PRE does appear to be an interesting phone-but it is based on what is currently known about the iPhone. It is an attempt to best CURRENT technology.
I am hoping Apple has something so grand and un-expected up their sleeves that the PRE will indeed look like "yesterday's paper".
The PRE does appear to be an interesting phone-but it is based on what is currently known about the iPhone. It is an attempt to best CURRENT technology.
I am hoping Apple has something so grand and un-expected up their sleeves that the PRE will indeed look like "yesterday's paper".
Why is downplaying apple innovation a more grave offense than downplaying another company's innovation?
LOL... they don't need Palm. Remember Palm hired all the Apple disgruntled ex employees to create the Pre.
Palm couldn't do it on their own.