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yup sony should buy apple



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aus45 said:
Idk why everyone is saying sony cant afford apple.

It's simple, because they can't.



Sony doesn't have the money to buy apple. The title of this thread would have made sense if you put " If MS bought apple" or "if apple bought sony".



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Khuutra said:
aus45 said:

If its assets sony still has more then enough with 230.5 billion and apple with 47.5 billion

Sony would have to liquidate enormous parts of their business to b able to buy Apple, and even then Apple probably owuldn't take the offer.


Yeah I agree apple wouldnt take tge offer but Sony has the money



Sony makes more money then apple so they can



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No they can't, financially crippling your company and selling off assets just to buy something means they can't afford it. It's because of this way of thinking that so many people are up to their eyeballs in debt.



"If MS bought apple" If you cant beat em buy them?...jkz



For Sony to buy Apple, somebody would have to SELL Apple.



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Train wreck said:
Munkeh111 said:
SmokedHostage said:
Sony can't buy Apple, if anything Apple can buy Sony.

That itsn't quite true, the simple fact that Sony has 180k employees, and Apple has 34k should give some indication of their relative sizes

Sony's revenue is nearly double that of Apple

Sony current market is currently 37 Billion dollars.

Apple has 40 Billion+ dollars CASH ON HAND sitting in banks.  Employees and revenue dont matter, what matters is what the marketplace values companies.

you could also look at apple market cap .  http://gizmodo.com/5501165/how-ginormous-is-apple-now  on march 24th before the ipad launch in was 207 billion. just a hair below walmarts and about 50 billion behind MS, and less then a hundred from exxon mobile which i believe is the largest on market right now.

40+ billion in cash, and debt free, the could buy sony lock stock and barrel if they went all out. the easiest way would be buy sonys debt and refuse to renegotiate it, sony has a lot of debt, and the lenders have been fairly friendly to them, apple could dismantle sony a piece at a time with its debt. sony options would be limited unless the Japanese government stepped in and helped them. 

however this is all hypathetical i doubt it would help apple to do any of this sony has nothing apple really wants, and corprate philosophies are very different 



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ocean-1984 said:
Or maybe Sony should buy SKYNET?

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