1) Macromedia - there stock has since run up a bit but was below the $6 level putting it at about %50 cash mean that apple could snap it up for a couple of hundred million.
- this would get Apple Flash which is the most downloaded web extension which I think could be used to leverage quicktime and also help give apple some say in emerging web standards
- Many say that macromedias products are simply better than Adobes competing ones and with the help from apple would even further that lead
- They could use the code and the knowledge to make an iHomepage app...This is definately needed...
- the only thing that could go against a purchase of them would be pissing off Adobe...this ofcourse is a big point
2) Adobe - this is a rare time in history when Apple's market Cap is above Adobes. However Adobe is still a multibillion dollar company and a merger would be very hard to convince on Adobes end.
- I do believe that have Apple own Adobe photoshop would be the crown jewel of things to own for Apple as they would be able to use it as leverage against microsoft dropping support for Mac Office
- also Apple would get PDF which is already the standard for os X and as Ebooks emerge as a popular way to view written material could be a big money maker as well (through acrobat)
- Apple would also get After Effects which would mean that Apple would own the compositing segment from Top (shake/rayz) to bottom
Palm - Apple could easily swipe up palm especially the software division when they divide up. Or buy the whole company and dump the hardware division (as they suck anyway)
- I believe Palm made a poor decision by not buying symbian os. It was a money looser at the time and needed support and I believe they could have bought it. And they would have already had a modern OS on the market. When Steve offered to buy Palm (supposedly twice and one time for an estimated 1 billion if true) Palm had no future OS. They were suffering from what Apple had gone through with Copeland. So if Apple had bought them at the time Apple could have based the OS on a slimmed down OS X an extened Cocoa API's to the platform.
- But this did not happen. Palm now has a market cap of $500 million. They aquired Be instead who are writing their new Os which is still not in any product yet. And the long awaited version os 5 is not truly a new Os but really a port of the old os onto Arm chips. So the wait will be much longer...
- If Apple did buy them they would immediatly be the #1 os seller in the pda market which would be nice
- they would get most of the BEOS team - nice again
- this is really a tough call... and at this point would only do it if I was really going to put a big effort into it.
- the latest rumors suggest Apple snubbing palm and putting its efforts elseware...
Real and Macromedia, I've heard that Apple may be going to buy Real because Real aren't doing very well.
What RealOne Player and Flash Player do are both things that can be done so much better by QuickTime. Mac OS X has far superior graphics capabilities to any Windows OS but still Windows runs Flash much more smoothly, I wish Flash player supported Quartz.
Even as a Windophobe and looking at it from the Mac point of view I don't think it's fair to discontinue PC versions of software after Apple has bought the company that makes it. To be honest I wish Microsoft and Apple would just merge, It's their little arguments that are holding the whole world's technology back.
Apple should buy a clue. A consumer computer costs less than 1000 USD. Exchange rates are set by international banking, not Steve Jobs' fantasy exchange rate generator.
<strong>Apple should buy a clue. A consumer computer costs less than 1000 USD. Exchange rates are set by international banking, not Steve Jobs' fantasy exchange rate generator.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<strong>Apple should buy a clue. A consumer computer costs less than 1000 USD. Exchange rates are set by international banking, not Steve Jobs' fantasy exchange rate generator.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Matsu what are you the spokesman for all the cheap computer users of the World?
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1) Macromedia - there stock has since run up a bit but was below the $6 level putting it at about %50 cash mean that apple could snap it up for a couple of hundred million.
- this would get Apple Flash which is the most downloaded web extension which I think could be used to leverage quicktime and also help give apple some say in emerging web standards
- Many say that macromedias products are simply better than Adobes competing ones and with the help from apple would even further that lead
- They could use the code and the knowledge to make an iHomepage app...This is definately needed...
- the only thing that could go against a purchase of them would be pissing off Adobe...this ofcourse is a big point
2) Adobe - this is a rare time in history when Apple's market Cap is above Adobes. However Adobe is still a multibillion dollar company and a merger would be very hard to convince on Adobes end.
- I do believe that have Apple own Adobe photoshop would be the crown jewel of things to own for Apple as they would be able to use it as leverage against microsoft dropping support for Mac Office
- also Apple would get PDF which is already the standard for os X and as Ebooks emerge as a popular way to view written material could be a big money maker as well (through acrobat)
- Apple would also get After Effects which would mean that Apple would own the compositing segment from Top (shake/rayz) to bottom
- I believe Palm made a poor decision by not buying symbian os. It was a money looser at the time and needed support and I believe they could have bought it. And they would have already had a modern OS on the market. When Steve offered to buy Palm (supposedly twice and one time for an estimated 1 billion if true) Palm had no future OS. They were suffering from what Apple had gone through with Copeland. So if Apple had bought them at the time Apple could have based the OS on a slimmed down OS X an extened Cocoa API's to the platform.
- But this did not happen. Palm now has a market cap of $500 million. They aquired Be instead who are writing their new Os which is still not in any product yet. And the long awaited version os 5 is not truly a new Os but really a port of the old os onto Arm chips. So the wait will be much longer...
- If Apple did buy them they would immediatly be the #1 os seller in the pda market which would be nice
- they would get most of the BEOS team - nice again
- this is really a tough call... and at this point would only do it if I was really going to put a big effort into it.
- the latest rumors suggest Apple snubbing palm and putting its efforts elseware...
What RealOne Player and Flash Player do are both things that can be done so much better by QuickTime. Mac OS X has far superior graphics capabilities to any Windows OS but still Windows runs Flash much more smoothly, I wish Flash player supported Quartz.
Even as a Windophobe and looking at it from the Mac point of view I don't think it's fair to discontinue PC versions of software after Apple has bought the company that makes it. To be honest I wish Microsoft and Apple would just merge, It's their little arguments that are holding the whole world's technology back.
Andrew
<strong>Apple should buy a clue. A consumer computer costs less than 1000 USD. Exchange rates are set by international banking, not Steve Jobs' fantasy exchange rate generator.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can't Prove that!
<strong>Apple should buy a clue. A consumer computer costs less than 1000 USD. Exchange rates are set by international banking, not Steve Jobs' fantasy exchange rate generator.</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Matsu what are you the spokesman for all the cheap computer users of the World?
Isn't the eMac close enough?
Fellowship Church?