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PearlJam on 07 April 2010
goddog said:

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 

You make sense, and you are using facts to support your argument. What the Hell are you doing on this website?



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fighter on 07 April 2010

Déjà vu... people tend to confuse revenue with liquidities...



fighter on 07 April 2010
PearlJam said:
goddog said:

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 

You make sense, and you are using facts to support your argument. What the Hell are you doing on this website?

 

and on topic, the holy trinity...



Billy Gun on 07 April 2010

Sony can't buy apple, MS in the other hand had bought most of apple stoks, MS saved apple of coming bankrupted, but MS just wanted to save Apple, they sold their stocks when apple was free of the bankrupcy.. MS didn't wanted to be chalenged of having 100% of the PC market.

Apple is much bigger than Sony

Without Bill Gates, today’s Apple probably wouldn’t exist!



dnnc on 07 April 2010

???? Apple Inc. is worth 3 - 4 times more than Sony Corp.
Sony has very little to No Cash Flow, How do you explain them buying a company that's larger than them, also Apple is public, and i'm pretty sure Apple's Board of Directors would never allow a company such as Sony that takes risks such as the PS3.
And on Sony buying Microsoft! Microsoft is worth almost 6 - 7 times more than Sony!!!!!!!!!!!
and don't give me any leavarage buy-out crap. this post is to imaginary to be allowed



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dnnc on 07 April 2010
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

you should've looked into your theory first before putting it out there

here is an example

Microsoft> Sony+Apple

Sony< Apple divided by 2 or even 3

Nintendo = 3 x Sony

are you catching up yet



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dnnc on 07 April 2010
PearlJam said:
goddog said:

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 

You make sense, and you are using facts to support your argument. What the Hell are you doing on this website?

ha ha ha. you made a funny



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DirtyP2002 on 07 April 2010
aus45 said:

Sony makes more money then apple so they can


no they don't.



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dnnc on 07 April 2010
Billy Gun said:
Sony can't buy apple, MS in the other hand had bought most of apple stoks, MS saved apple of coming bankrupted, but MS just wanted to save Apple, they sold their stocks when apple was free of the bankrupcy.. MS didn't wanted to be chalenged of having 100% of the PC market.

Apple is much bigger than Sony

Without Bill Gates, today’s Apple probably wouldn’t exist!

that was Bill's plan, without Apple, Microsoft would've gone the way of Standard Oil

chop chop chop



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dnnc on 07 April 2010
DirtyP2002 said:
aus45 said:

Sony makes more money then apple so they can


no they don't.

@Dirt, you should've let him believe it



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