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Everyone loves to make these arguments of the form 'Apple should buy x, because Apple has the ability to improve x in the following ways.' Nowhere does he addre
by gabrielroth 18y ago
Everyone loves to make these arguments of the form 'Apple should buy x, because Apple has the ability to improve x in the following ways.' Nowhere does he address why it would be in Apple's interest to buy Yahoo.
Apple is a hardware company; it makes money by producing objects and selling them to people. Yahoo is an advertising company; it makes money by producing content and selling ads next to it. If you want to argue that Apple should buy Yahoo, you have to explain why Apple should take a major stake in an area way outside its core competence.
- ahoyhere 18y agoYou mean to say that the companies we want to love don't act altruistically (with billions of dollars) for the greater good of the entire internets!? Oh no, gabrielroth, please say it ain't so. I agree with you completely. If only people would be better at splitting these types of ideas into their respective categories of "hopeless fantasy" and "business decision that might make sense."
- karzeem 18y agoIn fairness, the author did say that Apple needs Yahoo because iTunes search needs improvement. That doesn't exactly make the piece more persuasive, though.