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Apple Eyeing Time Warner Acquisition
- JohnTHaller 11y agoThat would be an awful development for those of us who are stuck with only Time Warner as an internet option and want nothing to do with Apple.
- ascagnel_ 11y agoTime Warner Cable is an independent entity that was spun off from Time Warner (the media company).
- mineshaftgap 11y agoI love people that buy Samsung for 'ethical' reasons.
- derrickdirge 11y agoIt's really difficult for me to imagine Apple providing a worse customer experience in this sector than Time Warner currently does.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoIt's not the customer experience that's the issue. It's the 'Apple tax' pricing and the proprietary everything. Not a judgement, mind you, as everyone has their own balance of price vs form vs customizability vs function vs etc.
- bobajeff 11y agoInteresting, because they used to own PIXAR but sold it to Disney. If this happens it would put them in competition with them.
- eyesee 11y agoApple never owned Pixar. You may be conflating them with Steve Jobs, who did own a majority stake at the time of the sale.
- bobajeff 11y agoOh, yes that's it.
- samfisher83 11y agoSteve jobs used to own Pixar.
- protomyth 11y agoHe became a billionaire again during the Pixar IPO with 80% of the stock.
- AnAfrican 11y agoIf i'm not mistaken, he also became Disney's biggest individual shareholder.
- protomyth 11y agoThat deal was on January 25, 2006. He became a board member and: "The transaction was an all-stock deal – making Steve Jobs Disney’s largest shareholder (he owned 50.6% of Pixar at that time; he owned more than 70% of the company when Pixar’s first proxy statement was filed in 1997 but had been diluted by share issuance / option grants over the years). Disney’s proxy statement filed in early 2007 shows that Jobs owned 138,000,007 shares of Disney – enough for a nearly 7% stake in the company. The 10-K for 2006 shows that Disney stock ended the year at ~$30 per share – making Steve’s stake worth more than $4 billion." http://www.gurufocus.com/news/315903/steve-jobs-investment-thats-returned-220x--and-its-not-apple http://www.gurufocus.com/news/315903/steve-jobs-investment-t...
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- bsharitt 11y agoOf all the the big tech companies that have a stake in content delivery platforms, Apple has been the most quiet in terms of actually creating/commissioning its own content. This would certainly be a big swing in that direction and put them far on the opposite side even ahead of Amazon.
- dplgk 11y agoDo Google, Microsoft and Facebook have their own content?
- theseatoms 11y agoFacebook's users are its content factories. Same goes for Youtube.
- madeofpalk 11y agoFacebook and YouTube has all their original user-generated-content, and Microsoft has their failed 'Xbox Originals', like the Halo television series. 'YouTube celebrities' are very successful, and Facebook has actively been been trying to court these YouTube celebrities to post exclusively on Facebook. Apple is seemingly the odd out not creating their own original video content, but Beats One is interesting as original _audio_ content, which no one else is doing.
- mtgx 11y agoApple Fiber vs Google Fiber? Sounds good to me.
- iamjustinleon 11y agoThis is from the NY COMpost. Take this with very large grain of salt.
- applecore 11y agoIt'd be hilarious if every tech bubble was conveniently bookended with an acquisition of Time Warner.
- sageikosa 11y agoI was just thinking: "it's come to that again..."
- at-fates-hands 11y agoNot sure this would be the smartest move. Aligning yourself with a company that has a notorious history of screwing its customers and providing less than decent customer service I think would instantly take that bulletproof Apple reputation and tarnish it immediately. This alone makes me think this is another Apple head fake into the area of content creation.
- wrice314 11y agoTime Warner Cable (cable service) and Time Warner Media (HBO, CNN, Warner Bros Studio, etc) are distinct companies. The media business spun out the cable division years ago. Apple would be buying the media assets.
- madeofpalk 11y agoTime Warner is also looking at spinning off parts of it's business. I could see Apple acquiring the content-creating businesses (such as HBO) and leaving the, for example, cable delivery business with TW.
- gotchange 11y agoThe article is not convincing enough. Till this point, they're just market rumors. Wait to hear some confirmation from Bloomberg or WSJ before analyzing it more seriously. PS: Anyone noticed that the second part of the article reads like it's written by a robot, one of those AI reporters?
- dangoor 11y agoI don't buy it. Apple's business is fundamentally selling hardware that is differentiated with software and services and this acquisition would be too large and crazy to pay off for Apple's fundamental business. The Apple Car rumors make a lot more sense.
- brudgers 11y ago"Apple Time Warner" on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story&query=apple%20time%20warner https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... Not a fresh rumor. My take is still the same: this isn't doesn't make sense because Time Warner is local to the US and only parts of the US at that and Apple is a global company.