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Apple's Acquisition of Beats Could Be Delayed Because of Valuation, Roles, and More
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Lesson to be learned by them: Keep your mouth shot until the deal closes!
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Well, if he doesn't comply wig Apple requirements he will just get fired, and that's the end of it.
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Well, if he doesn't comply wig Apple requirements he will just get fired, and that's the end of it.
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I'm mystified why people don't see the golden goose here. It's Iovine. Dr. Dre would have to be involved in a far worse video before Apple walks away this deal. If Apple wants to remain a player in the music industry they have to play it smart with this transition from music downloads to subscription service.
Screwing Iovine means the hill becomes that much steeper to climb
it cost them $14 to make a headphone and they sell it for $199 that's just the bonus.At least you are acknowledging your own stupidity...that's a start.
Might want to listen to Dr. Ben Carson. He tell it how it is to his own ethnicity and to stop using the race card as an excuse for everything.
Since it is likely the real leak came from apple, how would you deal with that?
Or do you think the Financial Times reports on every company who claims apple is interested in them.
I get the impression most people don't even know what the Financial Times is, what their reputation is and that they were the first ones to report on this potential deal.
Pretty much zero chance they ran the story without a source inside Apple.
You are trying to create a vision for people whose biggest financial windfall was a twenty five cent hourly raise. They are not going to understand.
For mostly irrational reasons some people have dug their heels in against this deal and will jump on any tidbit to make their irrational dreams come true. Heck half the naysayers still claim it doesn't make business sense, which is just intentionally ignorant. Don't worry though, the same people would cream their khakis if apple announced they were overpaying for a high tech garage door opening company that did not make money or spent thirty billion dollars on a camera app that has a donate a dollar a year revenue stream.
Exactly what I'm talking about. There was also a thing with one of the two GPU makers where one got eliminated from the product line-up over some leak (I forget which company), and probably a bunch of other situations.
If there's one thing we know about Apple, it is they do not like it when other companies talk about deals. It seems to me that if anything would kill this Beats deal, it would be Dr. Dre talking about it before the papers are signed.
You cannot be serious.
Apple's "cloud" revenues (not including hardware, MacBooks, iPod, iPhones, etc.) - ie. selling Apps, TV, movies, music, books, etc. is already a $30 billion a year business.
Please tell me how Beats, which has maybe a 150,000 subscribers paying $10 a month (thats less than $20 million a year) - us going to make any difference at all? Apple makes more money selling smart covers for iPads than Beats total streaming revenue.
Who says they want Beats? Why didn't Apple go after Nest? The connected home seems more of the future to me than streaming music.
Nest had only one good product and home automation is a nich market. Nest is not offering anything new to that market
Lol the fact that analysts are back pedaling can mean only one thing.
The whole deal was a lie.
skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been...
Not that hard to figure out, Einstein.
Then apple should be investing billions of dollars in spacex.
If you look at apple's acquisition history you would see why this makes no sense whatsoever.
You are so witty and clever... I bet you typed that while looking in the mirror, you handsome devil.
Again you are so fixed on the past... does it turn you on?
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Why is it likely? Why would Apple leak this story, when this would be contrary to their practice in every other case that anyone can recall? I suppose you have a theory. What is it?
what's worse.. street hustler businessman or white collar hustler businessman?
Neither - if you can't trust the person you're doing business with then the arrangement has already started off the wrong foot.
The Dr Dre video was just embarrassing. All it needed was him laying on a bed of money surrounded by lines of coke and some whores. I can't believe Apple really what this kind of person as part of their culture. It just smacks of desperation.
That's the reason I can't believe this has anything to do with bringing a coolness and 'hip' factor to Apple. Apple is already the hip and fashionable brand that everyone is trying to copy.
This is certainly an interesting acquisition if it goes ahead.
That's the reason I can't believe this has anything to do with bringing a coolness and 'hip' factor to Apple. Apple is already the hip and fashionable brand that everyone is trying to copy.
This is certainly an interesting acquisition if it goes ahead.
People see fashion victims waste their money on bought for the logo garbage. The very real possibly that " beats audio" could infect every Mac and iDevice eventually and be touted as an advantage is even worse. Just accept that there's people with more concern for functionality and quality than fashion and the cynicism of the likes of you won't change their mindset or why they have a legitimate reason for thinking the way they do.