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No other startup has ever been so primed for an Apple acquisition. Everything from execution, design sensibility, culture and even CEO is heavily Apple inspired
by fufulabs 15y ago
No other startup has ever been so primed for an Apple acquisition. Everything from execution, design sensibility, culture and even CEO is heavily Apple inspired but in a different but still complementary industry.
- rsuttongee 15y agoYeah, except for the fact that both Jack Dorsey and Keith Rabois are both already horrendously wealthy and almost certainly have no interest in being acquired.
- tjogin 15y agoSquare and Apple seems like a great cultural fit. But I don't think there is a snowball's chance in hell Apple is even mildly interested in acquiring them, as it would make zero business sense to do so. And the feeling is probably mutual.
- zbowling 15y agoI don't know about that yet. Mobile payments is a hot category. While some are looking at it from the perspective of using your cell phone to make purchases, square is looking at it in the reverse. It's probably the best positioned POS system ever for the long tail that doesn't have or want a traditional POS terminal. To Apple is could be a resource to entering the iPad as the defacto kiosk to all things touch market.
- physcab 15y agoThat would be an almost funny turn of events. My neighbor is a recruiter at Square and I'm 100% positive that they try to recruit exclusively out of Apple's hardware teams. These are the people that are looking for their next win and already know their way around the China factories where the Square's are made.
- yalogin 15y agoSquare is a POS, cash register company. Why would Apple be interested in it?
- driverdan 15y agoIt's an area ripe for disruption. Apple is already a payment processor (iTunes) and has easy to use touchscreen devices (iPad). Seems like a good fit to me.
- esusatyo 15y agoPeople said the same thing when they acquired Siri.
- kmfrk 15y agoThe "POS" acronym is really, really unfortunate.