Apple to Buy Sony?

Lance Uppercut

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The US stock market is alive with rumours that Apple is about to launch an unprecedented acquisition - with Sony and EA just two of gaming's mentioned targets.

Apple has $51 billion cash to spend - and, last week, Steve Jobs hinted at where that might go.

"We strongly believe that one or more very strategic opportunities may come along, that we can take, that we're in a unique position to take advantage of because of our strong cash position," he told investors.

"So I think that we would like to continue to keep our powder dry because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future."

Could those "strategic opportunities" include the purchase of a video games company?

Some on Wall Street obviously think so.

Kaufman Brothers have tipped EA, Netflix and even Facebook as targets.

But it today emerged that financial wires have also nodded to Adobe, Disney and - wait for it - Sony.

Leading financial magazine Barron's is reportedly suggesting that Apple faces "speculation that it could acquire Adobe Systems, Sony, or even Walt Disney".

Just imagine. It sounds crazy.

But $51 billion and no debt is an enviable position - particularly when you consider that, for its last fiscal year to March 31, 2010, Sony announced a net loss of 40.8 billion yen ($440 million dollars).

The Japanese hardware giant is estimated to be worth in the region of $40 billion - comfortably in Apple's price range.

Something massive could be a'brewing. Stay tuned.
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CVG

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If this means they can use the same drivers for the MP3 players then the iPod may no longer sound subpar.
 
esmufc10 said:
How on earth do they have $51bn to spend?
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They're one of the best when it comes to the marketing - they REALLY know how to sell a product, regardless of how technically underwhelming and overpriced it may be. I mean they've already monopolised the Mp3 market, most of the laptop market and more or less the phone market too (for now anyway).
 
esmufc10 said:
How on earth do they have $51bn to spend?
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Because they're so good at selling that even though I know I could have an exact same device at lower price, I still bought five iPods and a MacBook, and I'll probably buy an iPad next year even if it doesn't make any sense at all!
 
Buy United :D

We'd have transfer budgets of a Million pounds a summer :lol:
 
Sarni said:
Because they're so good at selling that even though I know I could have an exact same device at lower price, I still bought five iPods and a MacBook, and I'll probably buy an iPad next year even if it doesn't make any sense at all!
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Fanboi :nono:
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Smilie only response DENIED.

Give us something, Weaste.
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If any move was made to buy Sony, its market value in terms of equity would go through the roof. In terms of assets, Sony is 3 to 4 times larger than Apple, who probably only have assets in the region of $40bn as a whole. Why would Apple want to get into making TVs, films, music, bother with banking, etc. in the first place?

It's a nonsense story!
 
WeasteDevil said:
If any move was made to buy Sony, its market value in terms of equity would go through the roof. In terms of assets, Sony is 3 to 4 times larger than Apple, who probably only have assets in the region of $40bn as a whole. Why would Apple want to get into making TVs, films, music, bother with banking, etc. in the first place?

It's a nonsense story!
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Good. I don't fancy paying 200 quid per game.
 
Even in terms of raw revenue, Sony makes twice as much as Apple. It simply does not make sense.

An offer to buy SCE is a different matter, but why would Sony sell it? In the PS2 ear it propped up the whole company, in the PS3 era it's been used to push the technologies of Sony Electronics - Blu-ray, 3D, etc.
 
Id like to know how Sony have recorded huge annual losses when they have a great reputation and deliver great products. I don't see the point in EA unless they are going cheap, if they want to enter the gaming market why not Blizzard or Bioware.
 
WeasteDevil said:
If any move was made to buy Sony, its market value in terms of equity would go through the roof. In terms of assets, Sony is 3 to 4 times larger than Apple, who probably only have assets in the region of $40bn as a whole. Why would Apple want to get into making TVs, films, music, bother with banking, etc. in the first place?

It's a nonsense story!
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Is it possible, that apple would want to buy a particular section of sony, rather than all of it out right?

Im not buisness savy, just wondering like...
 
WeasteDevil said:
Even in terms of raw revenue, Sony makes twice as much as Apple. It simply does not make sense.

An offer to buy SCE is a different matter, but why would Sony sell it? In the PS2 ear it propped up the whole company, in the PS3 era it's been used to push the technologies of Sony Electronics - Blu-ray, 3D, etc.
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So what your saying is Sony and not Apple should be buying United?
 
CircusMonkey said:
Id like to know how Sony have recorded huge annual losses when they have a great reputation and deliver great products. I don't see the point in EA unless they are going cheap, if they want to enter the gaming market why not Blizzard or Bioware.
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The electronics division, their bread and butter, has been bleeding money for a long time, that's why they brought Stringer in, and he seems to have it finally under control. I wouldn't say that their losses are huge when compared to their size, but it has hit their market cap value, which is currently less than a third of their assets. There is no way that Apple would want Sony as a whole, but I don't see why Sony would want to sell its gaming division either.
 
Apparently the next big Apple announcement will be product specific.

Haven't got a source to quote on this, but rumour is they're bringing out a product aimed at the female market.

The iRon.
 
RedKaos said:
They're one of the best when it comes to the marketing - they REALLY know how to sell a product, regardless of how technically underwhelming and overpriced it may be. I mean they've already monopolised the Mp3 market, most of the laptop market and more or less the phone market too (for now anyway).
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can you prove this , 99% of people I know that have laptops are not mac's
 
hungrywing said:
Actually Apple (Jobs/Pixar) saved Disney.
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Complete bollox!

Pixar and Apple are different companies. Jobs acquired Pixar after he was sacked by Apple and 20 years later Pixar was acquired by Disney. Jobs was CEO of Both Pixar and Apple and now is on the Board of Directors at Disney.
 
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