Iphone sales are dropping. Without Job's swiggity swag, they've been making god horrible inventions.

Apple watch? Pathetic! A regular smartwatch is much better. The Gear S2 is also better at navigating through the watch.

Ipad Pro? Really? Just no explanation.

New keyboard design for macs? Why!? It feels like you're typing on a digital keyboard!


If they won't make a good invention soon, they're gonna meet the grave soon. While the likes of MS, Samsung, and LG have other products to sell, Apple doesn't. They are relying too much on Iphones. Sales for their phones are expected to drop. That isn't good.


Console market is useless for them. They need to set their sights on more profitable things

Actually that would be really cool. Nintendo partnering with Sega to launch a new console backed by Apple's $200 Billions that would be great.

I completely disagree with you, it seems that you have forgotten that the Wii (still alive) has a lot of games with not only 20 million + but 30 m+ and 40m+ sold copies! The Wii U also has an impressive attach rate and I haven't seen anPS4 or XBOne game that surpass the 10m+, just in PS360 but in Wii as well and those systems are selling better than the Wii U so Nintendo sells more First Party software than Sony and Microsoft togheter,  and no one has reached the 3DS, the best selling system in this generation (and a lot of people seems to forget this), so duopoly? I don't think so, unless you said that there's a duopoly selling the same specs, same graphics, same old same stuff which yes, you're a correct. And it's funy: No cultural impact? LOL , maybe you haven't seen Smash Bros. or Pokémon or Zelda or Mario, icons of the videogame inustry and pop culture. I have no idea what's the name of the GTA V main character, I even know the entire Watch Dogs crew! And I do acknowledge GTA V success but it sells on the PS3, 360, PC, XBOne, PS4, 5 platforms against Nintendo, fighting on its own and doing fine right now.

Apple should buy Greece and rename the capital Applens.

Apple buying MS=owning PC made me lol.

Ew. No. I don't mind them joining the gaming industry, but they should never own Nintendo. Okay, MAYBE Sega, maybe we'd get some decent Sonic games then. Heh heh 

Nintendo would be destroyed if Apple bought them out.

The whole idea makes me nauseous....
Does having a whole lot of cash reserves make MS a great company to have in the console space? No... look where they wanted to take the industry; DRM, always online, camera always connected, media focused, not game focused. We also see that they have no interest in building their own group of studios.
Apple is similar, the cash belongs to the company and not to a specific part of the company. They are into making money and getting huge ROI, not into "owning" any space... whether it is your pocket, living room or toilet. They really don't care about real gaming, the large investment and relative small return is not attractive to them. What you get in an iPhone in general is crap, second rate components dressed up to be premium. The design is where they make most of their money, that and tax avoidance through locating their HQ in Ireland and their design IP in the Caimen Islands (I believe).
I really do wish people would stop going on about apple, they are not that great. They had a golden period of innovation and that is long gone. Most people don't seem to have realised that yet and are still clinging to the brand.

Apple philosophy is too different, keeping their respective brands strong and highly recognizable is the only thing they have in common. Apple would sink Ninty unless it leave it totally independent in decision making.

Japan blocks pretty much any takeover attempts of their larger companies, whether the company's board is happy with it or its hostile

the only thing you'll generally sometimes see if Japan (the government) allowing small companies to be acquired or mergers of Japanese companies

like has probably already been mentioned on this thread, if it were a possibility Microsoft probably would have acquired Nintendo long ago (not that I think the Nintendo board would have went along with it regardless). The Japanese government is quite traditional and is probably smart in some respects to limit internal companies to be taken over. Bear in mind that a lot of communities rely on certain businesses for jobs (not that Nintendo really applies there)