If Apple bought Disney what would they do with it most of Disney is not the type of business Apple is in or wants to be in. If Apple bought Disney they would probably keep the film division and sell off all the rest. You really think Apple want to put a big glowing Apple logo on top of the Matterhorn?
Apples largest merger in the last 25 years was only $3 billion dollars, Apples best acquisition cost $400 million but it came with the best CEO in the last 25 years, and three other acquisitions, PA Semi, Intrinsity, and Anobit were critical to Apple’s, Arm SOC’s development, cost Apple a total of 1.1 billion dollars.
Apple leaves the big questionable acquisitions to Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta each of them like to over pay for acquisitions over the years, and they also tend to buy and fit them in after they acquire them, while Apple does the opposite, they buy a small company to support an existing internal Apple project.
PS, Pixar is the only part that Apple would be interested in buying, if Disney was selling, and that would probably be the only part, Steve Jobs sold it to Disney for 7.5 billion, Apple probably would be interested if Disney was willing to let it go for 15 billion in quick cash.
No way Apple is buying Disney for sure. Take lesson from AOL who bought Warner at one point and failed to manage those massive business divisions. Focus on Mac and iOS stuffs. Let alone Disney be Disney. Disney is an entertainment company, not tech.
Apple is much more likely to buy Disney than they are to ever build a car.
The one I don't get is why they haven't bought Adobe yet. That's one they should have done decades ago.
Your thought about Adobe is an interesting one. Back when Apple had Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and Aperture--in addition to the consumer-focused iMovie and iPhoto apps--it seemed like they were in it to win it against Adobe. And then they just axed Aperture and FCE, while FCP, although still around, seems to have lost the buzz it once had vs. Adobe. So it seemed like Apple lost interest in taking on Adobe, and although it could have afforded to buy them out, it has never even made an offer,
Even more timely: Avid was just bought out this week for $1.4 billion, while Apple is sitting on $56 billion in cash. Seems like THAT could have been an interesting purchase for them.
As for Disney: that's gotta be a hard pass for Apple. Look at the Disney assets: Linear television is dying. Theme parks/cruises have nothing to do with Apple's business. And streaming continues to lose money for Disney (despite the huge brands under the Disney+ banner) and every other streamer except Netflix. And if you look what Apple has done with Apple+, there seems to be no interest in a big content library. Apple+ is the curated boutique of streaming. It tends to buy much less content and invests in higher end projects that align well with the Apple brand. (And hey, despite buying much less, Apple has won a best TV series Emmy and a best picture Oscar. No other streamer has done this!) And even with brands like Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars, I don't think Apple has any interest in being in the content production business.
That's not the bottom line. The bottom line is there are analysts that cover Apple that don't have the first clue about what makes the company work.
There are good analysts. Katy Huberty was excellent. And, other than beating the drum on an Apple TV set, Gene Munster is excellent.
Laura Martin cited here doesn't understand the company, and her saying that Apple had to buy Disney to guarantee that the Apple Vision Pro is a success is ludicrous.
Early AppleInsider got some stuff wrong, like that one. We admit when we do, and Kaspar hasn't written regularly for AppleInsider in well over a decade.. Most analysts don't care if they get things wrong. Notably, Munster did about the television.
I still think Apple should buy Disney...they could benefit in many ways. And, well Disney could use Apple's help lol.
Pixar is the only part Apple should have any interest in, and that’s it.
Why would Apple be interested in Pixar, an animation production house that's like a once great athlete in the twilight of his or her years. Pixar was once the bleeding edge of tech applied to animation. No one had ever seen the kind of animation that Pixar was putting on the screen. AND it had fantastic storytellers who knew how to use that Pixar imagery in the service of a great animated movie script. Pixar WAS an animation hit-making machine. But now? They produce $200 million dollar bombs like Elemental, the most expensive animated movie ever made. They no longer have a technological edge on anyone and whatever magic existed there among personnel seems to have left the building permanently. And here's the thing: if Apple wants in on the animation production business--and I don't think they do, at least not in a big way--they don't need to buy a studio like Pixar, they can just commission Apple Originals. The tech is readily available and the great storytellers are all guns for hire.
"Or at least they should have begun to see that clickbait headlines about why Apple must buy Disney have to be losing their pull as the years go by and Apple does nothing of the sort."
So you flipped the script to new clickbait on why Apple won't buy Disney?
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Apples largest merger in the last 25 years was only $3 billion dollars, Apples best acquisition cost $400 million but it came with the best CEO in the last 25 years, and three other acquisitions, PA Semi, Intrinsity, and Anobit were critical to Apple’s, Arm SOC’s development, cost Apple a total of 1.1 billion dollars.
Apple leaves the big questionable acquisitions to Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta each of them like to over pay for acquisitions over the years, and they also tend to buy and fit them in after they acquire them, while Apple does the opposite, they buy a small company to support an existing internal Apple project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple
PS, Pixar is the only part that Apple would be interested in buying, if Disney was selling, and that would probably be the only part, Steve Jobs sold it to Disney for 7.5 billion, Apple probably would be interested if Disney was willing to let it go for 15 billion in quick cash.
Even more timely: Avid was just bought out this week for $1.4 billion, while Apple is sitting on $56 billion in cash. Seems like THAT could have been an interesting purchase for them.
As for Disney: that's gotta be a hard pass for Apple. Look at the Disney assets: Linear television is dying. Theme parks/cruises have nothing to do with Apple's business. And streaming continues to lose money for Disney (despite the huge brands under the Disney+ banner) and every other streamer except Netflix. And if you look what Apple has done with Apple+, there seems to be no interest in a big content library. Apple+ is the curated boutique of streaming. It tends to buy much less content and invests in higher end projects that align well with the Apple brand. (And hey, despite buying much less, Apple has won a best TV series Emmy and a best picture Oscar. No other streamer has done this!) And even with brands like Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars, I don't think Apple has any interest in being in the content production business.
There are good analysts. Katy Huberty was excellent. And, other than beating the drum on an Apple TV set, Gene Munster is excellent.
Laura Martin cited here doesn't understand the company, and her saying that Apple had to buy Disney to guarantee that the Apple Vision Pro is a success is ludicrous.
Early AppleInsider got some stuff wrong, like that one. We admit when we do, and Kaspar hasn't written regularly for AppleInsider in well over a decade.. Most analysts don't care if they get things wrong. Notably, Munster did about the television.
So you flipped the script to new clickbait on why Apple won't buy Disney?