[News/Rumor] Apple rumored to consider purchasing Disney

[StyM]

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/56858/...ney/index.html

Apple is just as massive in the consumer electronics business, and with $200 billion in cash laying around, Apple could really stir up the entire world with an acquisition of Disney. With the largest cash reserver for a private company in history, Apple would own the rights to IP like The Avengers, Toy Story, Star Wars, Frozen, and so many more with an acquisition of Disney.

Now imagine all of that content having its parent company Apple, provide them with the rights to use their products like iPhones and Macs in their movies and TV shows - without the why-do-they-bother crappily made custom OS for a shot of a smartphone in a movie, or the fact that they're using an iPhone or Mac and they put tape over the logo. Imagine actual product placement, without it needing to be, and by a company as large as Apple - in movies as big as Iron Man, for example.

The rumor is coming from RGB analyst Steven Cahall, who said: "Bulls think it portends well for a swan song exit via a sale to a giant like AAPL", reports Business Insider. The site added that there is a "battle raging among content providers for your eyeballs", and they're completely right.

Mix in the exciting future of augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies - Apple could position itself amazingly well with an acquisition of Disney. With rumors of the iPhone X from the likes of Robert Scoble, and others - Apple's tease of a Disney acquisition is beyond exciting.

If AR/VR/MR tech is the future, and I believe it is - in a bigger way than most people think, Apple could be making a deal that will be so big in 10-20 years it'll make our head spin... we just won't see it right away. Right now, BI said "we are living in a world where content is king", and if Apple owned a massive slice of that content pie... well.

It could be the global leader in consumer products and entertainment, offering their Disney, Pixar, and LucasFilm-made movies on Apple's own services. It could potentially lock out massive film franchises from the likes of Pixar and Marvel from Google or Netflix, forcing people into the arms of a subscription with Apple on their devices or services.

Do you think it'll happen? Would this deal make you switch over to an iPhone if your favorite movies or franchise were owned by Apple overnight?

[Tenknics]

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/56858/...ney/index.html

this will never happen

[xytrius]

Well, Jobs owned 7.7% of Disney after he merged Pixar (which he owned) with it. His widow now owns around 4%.
Source: http://www.barrons.com/articles/stev...alf-1485946054
Sony owns Columbia (they call it their part of their software division), I don't think Apple buying Disney can be totally ruled out.

[bluestang]

So when they remake every Disney movie ever they can call it "magical" lol

(You know...Like stereo speakers on a phone of their's is magical, a low light camera is magical, etc...You get the idea, or lack of actually)

[alpha0ne]

apple need to diversify asap, in ten years time the only ppl buying their phones will be American's and who the fu*k even uses their 'pooters these days ??? (apart from nearly EVERY tv show cast with the obligatory macbook usage plug )..................a couple of % of the populace

[xytrius]

Well, I think that Apple [laptops] can be useful. I use a 7 year old 17inch 1080p 3.06 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro that dual boots WIn7 with MS Visual Studio and Adobe CS; I can use POSIX compliant commands with my El Captain boot and port it to an IBM AS400, I can work on code for a Solaris and work on Visual Studio smoothly carrying everything in my backpack. I cannot see a PC with more flexibility; don't get me wrong I have an OC 4G WC I use Win 10 (with VS and Adobe) and Debian but the flexibility of an Apple laptop is just amazing, I need just a couple hours to create a dual boot fully progammable machine for me and my colleagues, it takes forever with a Win x86 laptop.