...lol Sony will be the first one getting bought.

It's rare that you see a Corporate Executive show off rabid fanboy insanity.  

Buy out Apple?  Are you serious?  Apple has something to the tune of $70 Billion in cash, sitting in the bank.  Sony had to sell it's headquarters building to drum up revenue and cover production costs.  At this point, if PS4 doesn't sell well, Sony won't even be able to afford AN apple by next year, let alone a Samsung device. 

Sony better get their food stamp card ready if they want to buy Apple...

Not to be devils advocate here but the ones being sold in the sony stores have LCD panels and video drivers boards built during the Sony/Samsung LCD partnership (with the last few models using Phillips driver boards), so it's actually not a million miles away from being accurate, since while those laptops are running windows, theyre still sony laptops - and while those tv's are samsung tv's theyre still built using sony+samsung parts.

the difference is that microsoft's success depends on the sales of sony/acer/samsung laptops, sony's success depends on competing with samsung and being successful with that. it is a totally different thing.

back to topic:

i really doubt that some official guy said that, maybe he said  "our dream is it to sell as many units as samsung and apple anytime in the future" or something ike that.

Keep dreaming Sony. Meanwhile your in massive debt

If PS4 pulls a Vita you'll see what they will buy lol.

When I go to the source of the source in the OP and allow google to translate the Japanese it reads as follows:

"Become the third largest smartphone maker Apple and Samsung followed by" Sony [Headline]

[some content]
He said in the interview, he said "in shipments of smartphones, now Sony but ranked fourth in the world, and in the future overtake Huawei ranked third worldwide, established himself followed by Apple and Samsung" and .

So basically, Sony just wants to take over 3rd place. However, it does mention dreaming of acquiring Apple one day. Seems to be a joke (learned a little loneliness setting realistic goals).

"the dream much larger than Sony "It allows the acquisition of Apple. You will not be able to fulfill his dream is just management company, of course, is also true I learned a little loneliness setting realistic goals of executives iconic consumer electronics company Sony was once Japan."

sure, that was just a thought if they would both do it right now. that's obviously the reason why we see no samsung tv in a sony store but if we would see them, something very bad would have happened with sony because otherwise we won't get to the point that sony will profit from that more as selling only their own stuff.

The only reason Apple's % growth rate isn't accelerating is because it isn't even realistically possible. Have you actually looked at their financial statements for the last 3 years, or are you merely basing this off of their stock price (which is far removed from the company financials like many other stocks, and has a lot more to do with current press relating to Apple, as well as the expectation...yes, just an expectation, that Apple will no longer release any innovative products).

Apple's revenue went from 65.2 billion in 2010 to 108.2 billion in 2011 (43 billion increase) to 156.5 billion in 2012 (48.3 billion increase). To maintain the same % increase, their sales would have had to go up to 179 billion...Their income went from 14.0 billion in 2010 to 25.9 billion in 2011 (11.9 billion increase) to 41.7 billion in 2012 (15.8 billion increase). To maintain the same % increase, their profit would have had to go up to 47.9 billion.

Should I even mention the fact that their R&D has went from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.4 billion in 2012, yet investors honestly think they are still just working on the same old iPhone, iPad, iPod & Mac?

C'mon man. Stop just reading all the negative press, and actually look into things once. Apple hasn't reached its apex, Apple has just stopped growing at an absolutely impossible rate, and is now only growing at an absolutey ridiculous rate.