Apple has a $200 billion war chest, should it buy Nintendo and Sega?

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Soundwave said:

CGI-Quality said:

Your argument was also that they could buy MS. Do you see now how that's not so clear cut?

And yes, DM235, excellent post! Couldn't have put it better.

Actually that shows it's *possible* especially if MS' market cap drops and Apple's cash pile continues to rise (likely). I never said it would be easy. 

It shows that it's possible if you presume a ridiculously low premium, and you ignore the fact that Microsoft has 102 billion in cash and cash equivalent as well, and you pretend like Apple could just turn 170 billion in longterm marketable securities (read: government bonds) into hard cash just like that, and that there is no such thing as tax for repatriation of money, and a bunch of other things that do not reflect reailty. So no, it's not possible.