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Another content-free idle speculating navel-gazing post from the armchair analyst Asymco aimed squarely at Apple fans. >If Apple bought Google (it already has
by cooldeal 16y ago
Another content-free idle speculating navel-gazing post from the armchair analyst Asymco aimed squarely at Apple fans.
>If Apple bought Google (it already has a third of its value in cash) and it shut down Android, it could create $300 billion in value. If could even throw away all of Google and still walk out with a profit.
If that happens, Motorola, HTC, Samsung et al. are not going to go 'Oops, we lost' and then shutdown. They are going to move to a new OS, most probably Windows Phone which already has Nokia in the bag, and then the battle lines would be drawn up like in the late 80s and early 90s, Apple with it's single line of devices mantra and Microsoft with the OEMs competing to drive down price.
And not to mention Android is open source, so 'shutting down Android' doesn't make much sense. The OEMs would probably gang up to continue development which Apple can't do anything about.
What if Microsoft buys Mac OS X from Apple for forty billion dollars in cash and then quadruples the cost of Windows? Obviously it can make the money back because of the monopoly!
- dailyrorschach 16y agoAd hominem much? We can argue about his conclusions and methods, but to say that he's some armchair analyst to me implies that his track-record is poor and that he should not be considered trustworthy on analyzing Apple's financials. That's simply not the case at all: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/19/apples-blow-out-quarter-the-bloggers-called-it-the-street-blew-it-2/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/19/apples-blow-out-quart...
- recoiledsnake 16y agoPredicting numbers is one thing(luck can play a very big role) and deep analysis without being clouded by one's biases is another. Asymco seems to fail in this regard in most of the posts(including this one) which come through as abject fanboyism not tempered by reality. How is it ad hominem? The poster clearly described why he thought so later on in the post. You can't take a line of someone's post to call ad hominem on it. Strawman?
- dailyrorschach 16y agoI still think beginning your argument in that way is unhelpful to the discussion. He said nothing of value by calling him a navel-gazing armchair analyst. The comment would have been more valuable simply taking issue with the one line he quoted and then discussed. But now, I'm starting to be guilty of the same, so I'm going to stop. Edit: That being said, certainly open to evidence that proves your points w/r/t his ability, and a later poster in the thread did just that.