Sony Wants to be Number Three, Thinks it “Could Buy Apple and Samsung” in the Future

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phinch1 on 08 March 2013

ethomaz said:

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I understand buying apple but I doubt they will ever have the money in the bank to buy Samsung.

Are you crazy? It's more plausible do buy any company bur Apple... the valeu of the Apple is way way way bigger than others.

OP. Somebody needs strong medicinals for that nonsense... I have no commets for suck delirious.

Think your T button is broken :)

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Tachikoma on 08 March 2013

Lostplanet22 said:
Samsung will buy Sony but not before sony begs them to do it. The humilation that sony sells samsung tv's in their stores is pleasant.

For a long time Sony and Samsung were in a joint partnership to produce LCD panels for TV's, and jointly fund the development of new displays, so this doesn't surprise me in the least.

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MoHasanie on 08 March 2013

ethomaz said:

Are you crazy? It's more plausible do buy any company bur Apple... the valeu of the Apple is way way way bigger than others.

Actually, Exxon Mobil has replaced Apple as the world's most valued company. Also, according to this article, Petro China could be bigger than both of them!

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/01/2013125185850853738.html

And this article explains why Apple may never be the most valuable company ever again

http://readwrite.com/2013/03/07/apple-may-never-regain-its-status-as-the-worlds-most-valuable-company

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phinch1 said:

ethomaz said:

JoeTheBro said:
I understand buying apple but I doubt they will ever have the money in the bank to buy Samsung.

Are you crazy? It's more plausible do buy any company bur Apple... the valeu of the Apple is way way way bigger than others.

OP. Somebody needs strong medicinals for that nonsense... I have no commets for suck delirious.

Think your T button is broken :)

At first I thought you were calling me a troll!

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zarx said:
even being generous and assuming he meant buy out just their mobile divisions that is ridiculous. Apple wouldn't sell their most profitable division and they frankly have the cash to buy out Sony if they wanted. I doubt Samsung which twice the size of SONY will be looking to offload their mobile division any time soon, I mean unlike Sony their mobile division is actually growing, plus Samsung as a whole is very profitable.

To be fair Sony's mobile market share has started to grow, it's almost ahead of Microsoft now.

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MoHasanie said:

ethomaz said:

Are you crazy? It's more plausible do buy any company bur Apple... the valeu of the Apple is way way way bigger than others.

Actually, Exxon Mobil has replaced Apple as the world's most valued company. Also, according to this article, Petro China could be bigger than both of them!

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/01/2013125185850853738.html

And this article explains why Apple may never be the most valuable company ever again

http://readwrite.com/2013/03/07/apple-may-never-regain-its-status-as-the-worlds-most-valuable-company

It's not publicly traded but still...

Saudi Aramco's value has been estimated at up to 10 trillion US$ in the Financial Times, making it the world's most valuable company.^[6]^[7]^[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

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In any case, the rankings for Q412 were as follows:

The ranking for 2012 were:

So while Sony and Huawei did good in the last quarter, they still didn't manage to sell that well eariler in the year. Even if they were able to keep the moumentum, they would probably end up as a distant 3rd.

Also, regarding the quote of buying Apple or Samsung, it only appears in the Japanese source of the Rocket News article but not the sources that this source lists (Phone Arena & JP Retures) so it might very well be a mistranslation or whatnot.

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kowenicki said:
Riiiiight. I don't believe the quote. Nobody is that stupid that they would say such a thing. Well... nobody who is allowed to move about the community freely anyway.

This! Seriously. We need a video or some kind of source that verifies it. I don't believe it for a second.

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Lostplanet22 said:
Samsung will buy Sony but not before sony begs them to do it. The humilation that sony sells samsung tv's in their stores is pleasant.

Was this really necessary?

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naruball said:

Lostplanet22 said:
Samsung will buy Sony but not before sony begs them to do it. The humilation that sony sells samsung tv's in their stores is pleasant.

Was this really necessary?

For Samsung it is. Even many Japanese are happy that the horrible company called sony now is crawling on their knees and have to ask stores to sell their products.

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