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eBay is an obvious nonsense, there's no link up there that makes sense. The only largish company that springs to mind that might makes sense is one Apple tried
by Tyrannosaurs 13y ago
eBay is an obvious nonsense, there's no link up there that makes sense.
The only largish company that springs to mind that might makes sense is one Apple tried to buy previously and failed - Dropbox. Apple have a weakness in their cloud service offerings that Dropbox might help fill but given what it would likely cost ($5bn+) and how Apple have slowly been improving in this area, I suspect that Apple would be as well just sinking that money into what they're already doing.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI agree Apple has been improving in cloud services but did they not completely scrap their Dropbox alternative? (iDisk).
- Tyrannosaurs 13y agoiDisk died with mobile me. Interestingly as an iOS user I don't find Dropbox a great fit because of the jarring of the file system model with the sandbox model. I'm sure that their cloud expertise would be beneficial to Apple but it may be that the optimum time for the two organisations to come together has passed.
- randomdata 13y agoEver since the App Store opened the the public, I have heard people suggesting that Apple should get into the mobile payments business, given that they already have a huge database of credit cards ready to accept payments. Now perhaps that would be a bad idea for them, but if they were to actually go in that direction, Braintree (eBay) wouldn't necessarily be a bad acquisition, cost aside.