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Apple has a weirdly pro-Disney bias: watchOS has built-in Disney faces, on a watch where there's no custom watchface support whatsoever. And this is apparently

Apple has a weirdly pro-Disney bias: watchOS has built-in Disney faces, on a watch where there's no custom watchface support whatsoever. And this is apparently mutual: Disney shipped a D+ visionOS app when several other streaming services (Netflix, YouTube, Spotify) were telling Apple to piss off. Disney investing in the company that has been the biggest thorn in Apple's side is... interesting. Obviously, the immediate motivation is "we wanna jump on the Fortnite zoomer bandwagon", but I can't help but wonder if Tim Sweeney's days are numbered here.

hboon 3y ago
> Apple has a weirdly pro-Disney bias Naturally since their CEOs were on the board of the other company and also Pixar.
jaimie 3y ago
There is a massive amount of history between the two companies, with Jobs being the largest individual shareholder of Disney due to the Pixar acquisition and Iger sitting on the board of Apple until Disney+ was launched. There's a Wikipedia page dedicated to the subject with extensive references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_acquisition_of_Disney_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_acquisition_of_Disne...
justin66 3y ago
> I can't help but wonder if Tim Sweeney's days are numbered here. He owns a controlling interest in the company.
- runevault 3y ago
  Did he remain > 50% on this purchase? I dunno where the shares came from that Disney bought.
  - justin66 3y ago
    I assume he’s recently been awarded new shares and that new shares were created for Disney, such that everyone else was diluted. I’m not sure some of the figures being reported can be verified as accurate yet.
SllX 3y ago
Apple has an excellent relationship with Disney, but they're still two separate businesses with different interests that only align in some areas. Disney and Epic also have aligning interests. That said, I would like to see how much equity Tim Sweeney still has left when all is said and done because as far as I know he only had 51.4% prior to today. A controlling share, sure, but somehow I doubt Disney gave him $1.5B for ~1.3%.
acomjean 3y ago
Disney via the Marvel brand did a lot of collaboration with fortnite. It must have went well. They sell iron man,Thor, spiderman and other skins. one season ever had stark industries as a loction: The announcement video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFG9DEPy6Y https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFG9DEPy6Y

hboon 3y ago

> Apple has a weirdly pro-Disney bias Naturally since their CEOs were on the board of the other company and also Pixar.

jaimie 3y ago

There is a massive amount of history between the two companies, with Jobs being the largest individual shareholder of Disney due to the Pixar acquisition and Iger sitting on the board of Apple until Disney+ was launched. There's a Wikipedia page dedicated to the subject with extensive references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_acquisition_of_Disney_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_acquisition_of_Disne...

justin66 3y ago

> I can't help but wonder if Tim Sweeney's days are numbered here. He owns a controlling interest in the company.

runevault 3y ago
Did he remain > 50% on this purchase? I dunno where the shares came from that Disney bought.
- justin66 3y ago
  I assume he’s recently been awarded new shares and that new shares were created for Disney, such that everyone else was diluted. I’m not sure some of the figures being reported can be verified as accurate yet.

SllX 3y ago

Apple has an excellent relationship with Disney, but they're still two separate businesses with different interests that only align in some areas. Disney and Epic also have aligning interests. That said, I would like to see how much equity Tim Sweeney still has left when all is said and done because as far as I know he only had 51.4% prior to today. A controlling share, sure, but somehow I doubt Disney gave him $1.5B for ~1.3%.

acomjean 3y ago

Disney via the Marvel brand did a lot of collaboration with fortnite. It must have went well. They sell iron man,Thor, spiderman and other skins. one season ever had stark industries as a loction: The announcement video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFG9DEPy6Y https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFG9DEPy6Y