Think Iovine not speakers. You can source great speakers all over. This is about the talent and vision.
If remotely about the speakers, this is a rebuke of Jony Ive and his direct control over Apple's industrial design. Beats are the equivalent of extra chrome and neon lights on a Ford Taurus.
Whatever developments come out of this acquisition will eventually be well worth $3 billion. Especially if it drives iTunes Radio adoption and iTunes media content deals.
That's a pretty big if. These content deals have to be negotiated country by country. Iovine comes across as a spoofer to me. The idea he's worth billions is nonsense.
Tim Cook confirmed for one of the worst CEOs in Apple's history. He will go down like Ballmer. It won't be long before he starts throwing chairs around as their competitors start eating into their revenue more and more.
He bought two people for $3 billion dollars? What a complete tool!
Who "confirmed" this? You? Just like your username, you're all hype, zero substance. Buzz off.
Apple has to deal with Samsung ripping them off, Beats headphone as knocked off every day in china and you can buy Beasts looking headphones for $35 on the street. As we have seen with android, people want to be seen with a smart phone and if they can get it free all the much better, so do you really think people care whether the headphone are actual Beats headphone or a look a like for $35. I am also beginning to see look alike which from 10 feet look like Beats but in fact they are a different company. There is nothing unique about Beats where most consumers will pay that cost.
With that said, there has to be more about this deal other than the Headphone or even their subscription music service and I highly doubt that Cook will let the public know what the real value of the deal is all about.
Notice they are keeping the Beats branding intact. So the engineering is not what Apple was after. If it were, they would have bought a boutique audiophile firm and dropped its branding, relabeled product with apple branding and called it a day.
And for all we know, they may still buy up high end audio firms and brand the acquired wares with Beats branding. He'll, Apple may already own patents that could immediately improve Beats product line.
The haters won this round. Maybe Browett can get a second chance too. Maybe Forstall will come back and save the company someday from Tim "don't call me Sculley" Cook, with reams of green felt and digital wood veneer. /s
The headphone line is profitable but that alone isn't the whole reason why the acquisition happened.
Iovine and Dre have connections.
The headphones deliver profit and there's plenty of innovation that can happen here
Beats Music....Apple should be ready to do something good iTunes/iTunes Radio/iTunes Match and now iSubscriptions LOL
They have connections? So what? Surely Apple can get any meeting they want with any executive they want. Either the deal works for content providers or it doesn't.
The haters won this round. Maybe Browett can get a second chance too. Maybe Forstall will come back and save the company someday from Tim "don't call me Sculley" Cook, with reams of green felt and digital wood veneer. /s
If Forstall did come back you'd love him and hate Cook. Sure we've always been at war with EastAsia.
I'm curious the work-relationship between Dre & Tim Cook. They're obviously both businessmen, but I would not want to p!ss off Dre. That guy just intimidates me.
Well shit. I guess I'll wait to hear Cook's rational, but in the meantime I'm not super happy about this.
Why not. Stylish popular designs that actually sell and make a high margin, a streaming service that actually has the best curation system in the market, and two music industry giants on board for all your music initiative from promotions to negotiations, to insight on pop and urban culture, to music production. Add to that the fact that if having Apple's marketing and design behind them doesn't increase revenue at all it would still pay for itself in two years since they did 1.5 billion last year before getting into streaming. Sounds like a great move. It also lets Cook focus on other things now that there will be a entertainment chief with connections rivaling Jobs and he no longer has to run retail himself.
Apple has to deal with Samsung ripping them off, Beats headphone as knocked off every day in china and you can buy Beasts looking headphones for $35 on the street. As we have seen with android, people want to be seen with a smart phone and if they can get it free all the much better, so do you really think people care whether the headphone are actual Beats headphone or a look a like for $35. I am also beginning to see look alike which from 10 feet look like Beats but in fact they are a different company. There is nothing unique about Beats where most consumers will pay that cost.
With that said, there has to be more about this deal other than the Headphone or even their subscription music service and I highly doubt that Cook will let the public know what the real value of the deal is all about.
Except for the "b" Beats is a total knock off itself.
beats music is the only service that competes with spotify/pandora. an area apple was lacking in. with a little tlc it can leverage beats music to dominate the sector.
having dre at apple will be killer. $3B in cool factor right there.
headphones don't matter all that much, but they are highly profitable for beats and will continue to be so for apple.
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Think Iovine not speakers. You can source great speakers all over. This is about the talent and vision.
If remotely about the speakers, this is a rebuke of Jony Ive and his direct control over Apple's industrial design. Beats are the equivalent of extra chrome and neon lights on a Ford Taurus.
So chuck a billion dollars his way & save the other 2 billion.
The headphone line is profitable but that alone isn't the whole reason why the acquisition happened.
Iovine and Dre have connections.
The headphones deliver profit and there's plenty of innovation that can happen here
Beats Music....Apple should be ready to do something good iTunes/iTunes Radio/iTunes Match and now iSubscriptions LOL
Hopefully Apple does something else with it.
That's a pretty big if. These content deals have to be negotiated country by country. Iovine comes across as a spoofer to me. The idea he's worth billions is nonsense.
Tim Cook confirmed for one of the worst CEOs in Apple's history. He will go down like Ballmer. It won't be long before he starts throwing chairs around as their competitors start eating into their revenue more and more.
He bought two people for $3 billion dollars? What a complete tool!
Who "confirmed" this? You? Just like your username, you're all hype, zero substance. Buzz off.
Seizes what?
Apple has to deal with Samsung ripping them off, Beats headphone as knocked off every day in china and you can buy Beasts looking headphones for $35 on the street. As we have seen with android, people want to be seen with a smart phone and if they can get it free all the much better, so do you really think people care whether the headphone are actual Beats headphone or a look a like for $35. I am also beginning to see look alike which from 10 feet look like Beats but in fact they are a different company. There is nothing unique about Beats where most consumers will pay that cost.
With that said, there has to be more about this deal other than the Headphone or even their subscription music service and I highly doubt that Cook will let the public know what the real value of the deal is all about.
Notice they are keeping the Beats branding intact. So the engineering is not what Apple was after. If it were, they would have bought a boutique audiophile firm and dropped its branding, relabeled product with apple branding and called it a day.
And for all we know, they may still buy up high end audio firms and brand the acquired wares with Beats branding. He'll, Apple may already own patents that could immediately improve Beats product line.
They have connections? So what? Surely Apple can get any meeting they want with any executive they want. Either the deal works for content providers or it doesn't.
If Forstall did come back you'd love him and hate Cook. Sure we've always been at war with EastAsia.
I'm curious the work-relationship between Dre & Tim Cook. They're obviously both businessmen, but I would not want to p!ss off Dre. That guy just intimidates me.
Maybe Apple next should buy Android.
Except for the "b" Beats is a total knock off itself.
having dre at apple will be killer. $3B in cool factor right there.
headphones don't matter all that much, but they are highly profitable for beats and will continue to be so for apple.