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> Instead of using M&A to buy revenue or users, which is a disastrous strategy in Silicon Valley, Apple looks to fill asset holes in terms of technology and tal
by gman83 9y ago
> Instead of using M&A to buy revenue or users, which is a disastrous strategy in Silicon Valley, Apple looks to fill asset holes in terms of technology and talent.
Um, Facebook buying WhatsApp and Instagram or Google buying YouTube wasn't a disastrous strategy.
- astrodust 9y agoFor every smart buy like YouTube there's been dozens of utter failures. MySpace. Netscape. Flickr. Softimage. It's to the point where being acquired is the kiss of death for most start-ups. Sure, you get your exit, but your product is toast. Apple has a very particular culture and it's difficult for other companies to integrate into that. Google was more accommodating, like with Nest, but even then they realized they had to restructure and make Alphabet for it to actually work. Sure, Google bought YouTube, but they also bought Boston Dynamics and fumbled it.
- lukestevens 9y agoMotorola too!
- astrodust 9y agoIt's quite a list, isn't it? Sony's aquisition of Ericsson, Microsoft of Nokia's phone business, which like Danger did not end well.