What if Apple and Sony joined?

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Phrancheyez said:

MrBubbles said:
...not direct competition??... .... im not sure how to respond to that...

 

How are they in direct competition?  For the people saying iPhone vs PSP umm..no.  No.  The iPhone vs Sony Ericcson?  Sony Ericcson is at the bottom of the totem pole anyway..if the companies were to merge, Sony Ericcson would be gone.

Direct competition is Apple vs. MS.  Direct competition is PS3 vs 360.  Where is their direct competition?

 

 I feel it would be a fools deal for apple mainly due to the increased scrutiny of the government for vertical integration by owning one of the big 4 music labels, and a conflict of interest for jobs until he retires to be on Disney board and over sony which has sony pictures. 

also walkman/ipod fight .   the whole sony computer arm vs apples (heres a clue vaio would be gone).  sonys proprietary music store ventures and formats gone, for itunes and acc.  hardware selling at a loss gone.   and if you remember what happened to apple when jobs first took over, a massive restructuring with major product line simplification, for apple it was for every 6 devices 1 so expect to see whole divisions gone. 

oh yea, and id expect major first party studios to close apple does not take kindly to software that under performs