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elizabethv
4/27/2017 9:38:59 PM
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Re: Apple
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2017/04/13/2-reasons-why-apple-isnt-buying-disney.aspx
This article makes it sound like the whole Apple/Disney thing was never really that close to happening anyway and gives fairly good reasons why I won't ever happen, including taking a long time to gain approval, even with the lax government regulations we have going on right now. Also, that it's entirely possible that Apple, as big as they are, can't even afford to buy Disney. Honestly, at $270 Billion, I'm speculative about who might be able to afford them. I'd imagine the list is impossibly small.
dlr5288
4/30/2017 4:03:12 PM
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Re: Apple
I agree! I think both Apple and Disney have made great advancements. However, in this particular field I think you're right. I don't think there's really much that Apple would be able to do.
JohnBarnes
4/30/2017 5:00:13 PM
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Re: Apple
Just mentioning the public interest in a quaint old-fashioned way:
Disney has some of the most sophisticated AI on the planet, much of it confidential, for predicting and estimating audience response, which, because they are ultimately in the business of selling access to entertainment, they presumably use in developing things people will want to see/hear, and in shaping their marketing so that people come in wanting to see/hear that.
Within the gray world of advanced proprietary market research, Apple appears to be leading the pack in methods for tracking, moment to moment and in detail, actual consumer response to products and services.
Put those together, and you have a fearsome engine for giving people exactly what they want, which may sound good, except, frankly, look at our species. Yes, to some extent we'd vote with our wallets to be steered toward being kinder and more tolerant, because many of us want to be that. On the other hand, we'd also vote for being self-satisfied with our present state of education, complacent about difficult or time-consuming problems, and in short ...
The circus could well become so good that we forget about any shortage of bread.
mhhf1ve
5/1/2017 7:08:42 PM
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Re: Apple
> "Apple, as big as they are, can't even afford to buy Disney."
Hmm. Disney's market cap is only $180B.. and Apple has just over $250B in cash reserves (overseas, though). So it's *possible* -- but it's just not likely that Apple would spend that much just to be distracted on how to absorb just a large entity with its own way of doing things.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/01/apples-cash-reserves-swell-250bn/
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