Who should Apple buy?

[GregA]

Re: Hmmmmmmmmmmm let's see

Originally posted by illumin8
This is the first insightful post in the whole thread. Apple needs to buy Sun in order to gain a foothold in the enterprise market. If Apple uses Sun's ability to create high-end servers while Apple makes killer workstations that all fit together into an enterprise architecture, the combined companies could provide an end-to-end system which might be able to unseat the Microsoft monopoly in corporate America (and the rest of the world, for that matter). Right now Sun is fire-sale cheap also, as the stock is so low.

I agree Sun is an interesting match.

I must admit, I'd like to see ACT bought out by Apple. A quality contact management system, merged with iCal, on Windows and Mac.

 

[Counterfit]

Originally posted by Hector
has anyone noticed that gamecubes have very simmiler tech. to macs ppc prosseor?
an intergration would be easy

That's probably because IBM makes the processor for the 'Cube, and ATI supplied the video.

 

[Jesus on OSX]

Apple should buy an iPod with a student discount and chill out to smooth sounds of jazz for a while.

 

[lewdvig]

I think Nintendo could buy Apple. They are huge with billions in the bank.

I think buying DD makes sense. DD users love the product but hate the company. I used to have to deal with DD product managers. Yuck. I like the idea of Apple being the complete vertical solution for music, from content creation through to distribution.

A game developer would be good. Blizzard was shopped around by Vivendi for a long time. It caused the founders to leave. Their IP is good. But long term prospect are not so good with the departure of the founders.

Valve is not for sale. Newell likes being independant and Steam is just another step in that direction. Soon they won't even need a publisher.

SquareEnix is pretty big now and both Sony and EA have stakes so this is unlikely.

The really good studios like iD and Epic are successful enough that they don't need anyone's money. If they did there would be a long line up.

TIVO would be cool. Apple is not in this space, but they should be. A TV/Video equivelant to the iPod with be huge for Apple.

 

[legion]

Originally posted by lewdvig
I think Nintendo could buy Apple. They are huge with billions in the bank.

I think buying DD makes sense. DD users love the product but hate the company. I used to have to deal with DD product managers. Yuck. I like the idea of Apple being the complete vertical solution for music, from content creation through to distribution.

I really dislike DD too, but they have a stranglehold on the market. They would never be sold to Apple and since they are owned by Avid, there's no chance that either would be taken by Apple. (Especially since Microsoft has partial ownership of Avid) In both broadcast, film, and music, Avid and it's music branch, Digidesign, have little to no competition. Every other music software/hardware company would love to have Digidesign's revenue streams.

(Odd thing is I like Avid, but once again it's because the product is excellent-- the company I could do without)

 

[eclipse525]

If they did go the route of let's say a TIVO or DD or any other company in that area, can you imagine what the iPod would probably evolve into? I don't care what anybody says but an iPod with PDA/Video/and ofcourse the Music capabilites would just be plain cool. Oh and a touch screen that fits in the palm of your hand. I'm tired of hearing from all those iPod purist that say it should just stay a music player. Please....I commute to work everyday and am not always in the mood to listen to music but would love to watch a quick flick or even play a game of sorts. I'd rather not have different device for all those functions. Would you. The only concern is that it's excuted right from the inception. That's my rant for the night. Sorry.





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