Apple to buy sony?

[Burns11]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevelyan

lol...let me end this right here. Apple doesn't have the cash to buy Sony, bottom line. $51 Billion isn't nearly enough.

Sony's current market cap is $34 billion, so $51 billion is more than enough.

[dickey1331]

lol I dont think this is going to happen. Like the article says Japan loves Sony.

[bkfount]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevelyan

lol...let me end this right here. Apple doesn't have the cash to buy Sony, bottom line. $51 Billion isn't nearly enough.

The thing is that they do have enough cash to buy Sony, it just makes no sense to do so.

Sony is a huge company with a different corporate culture and probably more employees than Apple. It would be a nightmare to integrate the companies together, and Sony's products are low margin while Apple does many of them better anyways. Sony does have some appealing parts, like their record label, but why buy the whole company?

Apple has never bought a huge established company anyways. They buy smaller companies with ideas or valuable tech, which gave them multitouch or the ability to make processors in house. Pointless speculation is all this is.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Cusefan

EA makes more sense for Apple.

not really.

Most of their value is in being a multiplatform developer/publisher. Buying them to support Apple products would cause EA to lose valuable licenses, publishing deals, and make their large scale distribution infrastructure pointless. They are also geared towards big budget multiplatform development, meaning many talented people, years of experience, and IP's would become useless.

What would Apple actually get from buying EA then? Apple already gets a cut of the sales from the games on their app store.

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevelyan

lol...let me end this right here. Apple doesn't have the cash to buy Sony, bottom line. $51 Billion isn't nearly enough.

This isn't true at all. Do you think someone would leak a story of this magnitude if it were shot down this simply?

[USF11]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

This isn't true at all. Do you think someone would leak a story of this magnitude if it were shot down this simply?

Theres ways around that. However why would apple want sony? Sony has so much on its plate and apple's success is doin a few things really well.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

This isn't true at all. Do you think someone would leak a story of this magnitude if it were shot down this simply?

Well it is the internet...

EA has been "for sale" with Apple, MSFT, Nintendo, Sony, etc all rumored to buy them for how long now? I can count since the PS2 and original Xbox days.

[luv_mist]

Apple buying Sony makes a minute amount of sense. Ironically, I can see Apple buying EA. Seeing the big picture Apple would continue to allow EA to work on the XBOX 360, PS3, and Wii still. There's a chance that they could even gain a better presence with gaming. The only way that I can see them getting Sony is by EA trying to integrate an OS that could compete against Windows. If Apple grabs the IP that Sony has, they could really open up even more possibilities. I'd definitely like to see Apple get into gaming realm. I'd just rather have them start off on their own.