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Well Even if the 7 does not sell as well as the 6s or 6 but if you add up the the 7 + the 6s + the 5se sells for this holiday season, they will add up to a lot of phones.

FoundationDB + FiloDB = Transactional + Analytical 

Apple can realize superb DB that is distributed, fault tolerant and covers both transactional and analytical spaces.

I hope they release it someday.

9secondkox2 said:

Interesting. 

so... Apple would only spend upwards of 2 billion on a supercar company with all the crazy engineering talent and facilities required to make cars like that possible...

yet it paid 3.2 billion for a crappy headphone company with a crappy app. 

That seriously adds some perspective. 

Beats was a very profitable company and about to become a lot more profitable with a well known brand name.
McLaren can't touch that although they are just what Apple needs because they have very little baggage.

ireland said:

Who's the source and what were their motives? Also, if you are in acquisition talks they are not investment talks—different. If you are buying a company you're not investing in it per se.

That's a good point but only time will tell if Apple is actually buy McLaren.

In any case I am now reading a new rumor about Apple buying Lit Motors.
I think that would be even cooler and a lot less expensive than McLaren.

williamh said:

Only the most diehard fan boys will be able to buy these.

No necessarily.  They can also make some well designed cars for the masses.
Apple must be impress with their design methodologies, but they can design any kind of vehicle that they want.

I must say, I see Jony Ives signature all over this deal.
And yes!  McLaren makes some bad-ass cars!