| goddog said:
well played |
I could list the entire back portfolio or just whats for sale now, either way it covers pretty much the same areas as MS. with the noted exception of video/computer game production. and apple does have a history of buy companies/applications to break into an industry.... Itunes bought, final cut bought, OSX bought, granted all of those were rough and not recognizable as what we use today or even recognizable from when they were bought to when apple first used it as an apple product (well except OSX 10.0 looked alot like nextstep with just a bit more polish and alot less stability )Right. But what would the point be to buy EA? It's value would decrease a lot if they only made stuff for apple platforms, and it would be much much cheaper to moneyhat for the content if that's what you want.
They're not competing with each other, so you don't eliminate a competitor. They're not working with each other, so there wouldn't really be any integration. EA has nothing that Apple wants. And the two companies have, as far as I know, radically different corporate cultures, ideologies, goals and strategies. So what, really, is the potential upside?
AppStore has proved a monumental success for Apple, as well as iTunes. Why move away from this new approach and go back to the old way? It feels like it would go against everything Apple stands for.
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Nintendo on the other hand, that I could see. That would have a much bigger potential for catastrophy, but could also make for gigantic success. :) I think.
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