These are actually the most cogent points of all, Sony is very big in Japan, and they are extremely protective of their companies.

I don't see what Apple would want with Sony.

Apple is the bigger name... and they don't really have a use for most of Sony's products... which are losing money.

It'd be interesting from a content perspective to get the movie and song rights and eventually get iTunes exclusivity i guess.

Outside that though... it'd be a huge waste.

If anything I'd think they'd just buy stake in a spun off Sony Entertainment.

Patents.  Apple loves to suck up patents like it's going out of style, and Sony has an absolute truckload of them.

Yeah... except this is Apple.  Who is actually pretty big in Japan.  If anyone coud do it... it'd be apple.

Hell, Apple is DOMINATING the japanese phone market right now.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-iPhone-5s-and-Apple-iPhone-5c-monopolize-Japanese-sales-charts_id49873

There's just almost nothing Sony could offer Apple, that Apple couldn't just as eaisly do themselves.   There's no reason for Apple to take on all of Sony's debt and unprofitable divisions.

If such a thing were to come to pass, I honestly don't think they would keep all of the unprofitable divisions, they'd either break them up and sell off the ones they aren't interested in, or just shut them down entirely.  Don't you think?  Sony has a major movie studio, and one of the larger music studios, and one of the larger groups of in-house developers, not to mention 2nd parties,  on top of all of the patents they hold.   Sony doesn't just make phones...afterall.  There's plenty there for Apple, who, of late have been very interested in content, could leverage into their own products/services.

And since they're so great at overcharging for....pretty much everything they sell, I'm sure they could make it profitable pretty quickly, especially if they sold off the divisions that they weren't interested in.

Still, all that aside, I don't want this to occur in any way shape or form.

Very nice post!!

I think the idea of the people who want apple to buy sony is the enormous pile of patents of sony and the music and movie business.
Apple needs to offer more content with their hardware products.

if they could choose between Apple or Samsung, I think the choice is made here (Apple)

if they could choose *only* between the two, yes, but honestly, I think they would consider a lot of other options before even considering giving sony up to one of these two... also, the point when apple buys sony it would be the time for me to turn to Nintendo/PC only

What major Japanese corp has been taken over by a foreign one ?

I don't see this happening, the Jgov would be a bitch to deal with to get it done.

I'd think they'd go after Nintendo before for those casual friendly brands like Mario and Pokemon.

Sony doesn't have the kind of game brands a company like Apple could make use of, and all their hardware clashes uselessly against what Apple is already doing.

The only reason I could see Apple wanting Sony is for their music and movie line, and to sell off the Playstation brand to someone else.