| Takeover Target | Less Obvious Reasons to Buy (Compliments of Team Munster Research) |
| Yahoo! | Just to piss off Microsoft |
| Palm | 1. Newton Nostagia Move 2. Ensure the historical preservation of gray-on-green screens |
| Disney | 1. Burning desire to build "his and her" Minnie and Mickey Macs 2. To piss off Time Warner/AOL |
| Nintendo | 1. Convert old joystick technology to multi-touch 2. To piss off Microsoft |
| TiVO | 1. Rhymes with early prototype codename for Apple TV, which was "STEVO" 2.To piss off Comcast |
| Napster | 1. To hold customers hostage for monthly rental payments 2. After all, loan sharking is illegal |
| Motorola cell phone biz | 1. College marketing interns wanted to work on selling ROKR ("we can sell it, we know we can!") |
| Universal Music | 1. iTunes has already captured all earthbound music 2. To piss off RIAA |
| Sun | 1. Revenge against IBM for the G4 processor 2. To put it out of its misery. |
| Adobe | 1. To kill Flash 2.To piss off Microsoft |
| Sprint/Nextel | 1. Idea from the young engineers at Apple -- they missed Walkie Talkies the first time around |
| 1.Why buy Yahoo when you can get the Alpha dog? 2.To piss off Microsoft |
Monday, February 4, 2008
Recently Rumored Apple Buyouts
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2 comments:
Er, isn't Apple holding AT&T hostage to monthly payments?
Very clever and original way of showing Apple's dominance in so many areas!
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