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Soundwave said:
McDonaldsGuy said:

I don't like how Apple (and many of its fans) tries to paint itself as a "luxury" brand when they use Chinese sweatshops.

Most luxury brands outsource manufacturing to China. Luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Burburry apparently have most of their high volume manufacturing done in China and then simply just assemble the pieces in Europe to be able to slap a 'Made In Italy' or 'Made In France' sticker on them. 


Sad. Luxury is just a word now.



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They have $133 billion just sitting around in cash reserves, lol.

Honestly Nintendo might not be a bad take over target for them.

Mario/Pokemon/Link exclusive on the iPhone/iPad/Mac would be a nice feather in their cap and keep the iOS store ahead of its competitors with waves of exclusive content you wouldn't be able to get on Android devices. It would could be a content driver for the Apple TV that they've been trying to bring to market for a long time.

Of course I doubt Nintendo would be so enthusiastic about the idea of being bought out, lol.



darkenergy said:
Apple's market cap could reach 1 trillion if this keeps up.

It's at $646 billion. Would need to go up a further 55%.



 

Mystro-Sama said:

How is Nintendo copying him?


Unified platform.



Apple is the only company I seriously don't like. I have great respect for MS and Ninty, even if I don't buy all that many products from them. But Apple...

Can't really blame them for having such overpriced products if people beg to buy them and stand in lines for days or weeks for a slightly larger screen. But they will never get a penny from me.

Congrats anyway for an impressive achievement.



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I remember when I was young I used to read about apple vs Microsoft and how they never had a chance. It's scary how easily they've passed them out and how big the gap is getting. Apple have too much money



Apple should just buy Sony. Imagine all their games, music deals, movies, ect all exclusive for Apple devices. They will pretty much dominate every entertainment industry.



Bleh. Apple makes good products despite their shitty iPhone.



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sweetoothj said:
Apple should just buy Sony. Imagine all their games, music deals, movies, ect all exclusive for Apple devices. They will pretty much dominate every entertainment industry.


The problem with that is Sony is a fairly large/bloated company. And Apple would only want a few parts of them, so they'd have to buy them and then lay off like 2/3 of the staff, shut down huge parts of the company, etc. 

Probably more of a headache than its worth. 



The iPhone thing seems to be vey much a USA thing: