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Excluding Next has Apple ever bought a big company? All the acquisitions I know of have been small and medium size companies and the technology has been someth

Excluding Next has Apple ever bought a big company? All the acquisitions I know of have been small and medium size companies and the technology has been something strategic; like coverflow.

dangoldin 18y ago
From Bloomberg, AAPL Acquisitons since 1990: Date * Type of Action Summary 2/ 4/97 Acquisition Target: Next Computer Inc 9/ 2/97 Acquisition Target: Power Computing Corp 4/11/00 Acquisition Target: DVD authoring software 3/14/01 * Acquisition Target: PowerSchool Inc 7/ 9/01 * Acquisition Target: Spruce Technologies Inc 4/ 4/02 Acquisition Target: Zayante Inc 7/ 1/02 Acquisition Target: eMagic.com LLC/Germany 12/ 4/06 Acquisition Target: Proximity Corp 4/23/08 Acquisition Target: P.A. Semi Inc Even better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Apple_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Apple_I.... Contains prices - biggest one was NeXT for 400M and then PA Semi for 278M
- mcormier 18y ago
  Thanks Dan, It's interesting to note that 5 of those 13 acquisitions are for video editing software, and 1 is for DVD authoring software. It's also interesting to note that the last video editing software purchase was in 2006. Apple shopping their video division is surprising but not shocking. Apple buying Adobe seems nonsensical when looking at this list. I misspoke about coverflow, they didn't buy the company, but bought the rights to the technology the company developed. http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/ http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/
  - joao 18y ago
    Apple also bought, what was the basis of, Final Cut from Macromedia when the product was being developed to be a competitor to Premiere, but Macromedia management decided not to pursue that segment and it was sold to Apple.
  - alaskamiller 18y ago
    Proximity isn't video editing, it's media assets management software and it's now been integrated into Final Cut Server.

Excluding Next has Apple ever bought a big company? All the acquisitions I know of have been small and medium size companies and the technology has been something strategic; like coverflow.

dangoldin 18y ago

From Bloomberg, AAPL Acquisitons since 1990: Date * Type of Action Summary 2/ 4/97 Acquisition Target: Next Computer Inc 9/ 2/97 Acquisition Target: Power Computing Corp 4/11/00 Acquisition Target: DVD authoring software 3/14/01 * Acquisition Target: PowerSchool Inc 7/ 9/01 * Acquisition Target: Spruce Technologies Inc 4/ 4/02 Acquisition Target: Zayante Inc 7/ 1/02 Acquisition Target: eMagic.com LLC/Germany 12/ 4/06 Acquisition Target: Proximity Corp 4/23/08 Acquisition Target: P.A. Semi Inc Even better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Apple_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Apple_I.... Contains prices - biggest one was NeXT for 400M and then PA Semi for 278M

mcormier 18y ago
Thanks Dan, It's interesting to note that 5 of those 13 acquisitions are for video editing software, and 1 is for DVD authoring software. It's also interesting to note that the last video editing software purchase was in 2006. Apple shopping their video division is surprising but not shocking. Apple buying Adobe seems nonsensical when looking at this list. I misspoke about coverflow, they didn't buy the company, but bought the rights to the technology the company developed. http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/ http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/
- joao 18y ago
  Apple also bought, what was the basis of, Final Cut from Macromedia when the product was being developed to be a competitor to Premiere, but Macromedia management decided not to pursue that segment and it was sold to Apple.
- alaskamiller 18y ago
  Proximity isn't video editing, it's media assets management software and it's now been integrated into Final Cut Server.