The amount of money involved in an Apple takeover now would be beyond enormous. Even assuming they paid no premium on the current share price whatsoever, which

The amount of money involved in an Apple takeover now would be beyond enormous. Even assuming they paid no premium on the current share price whatsoever, which is rather unlikely, they would have to stump up $500 billion or so. I strongly suspect it would be the largest such deal ever made though I'm too lazy to look it up.