I'd love nintendo to go third party, I wouldn't have to buy two consoles then. Smash Bros and Mario Kart on my ps4.... I can dream.

I don't really understand this attitude. Why would you retire from gaming just because Nintendo games are played on a machine that says PlayStation or Xbox. The games are the same. Are you really that attatched to Nintendo Hardware you wouldn't touch the very same games because they are on a different colored box?

I would honestly find being bought by apple less desirable. Not that I dislike that company, I can't see them actually getting any use out of the company. Honestly, going Third Party would actually be a best case scenario for Nintendo. They would be able to devote all their resources to making games, without the costs of hardware, and would pretty much immediately start turning a huge profit.

Not entirely sure Apple CAN buy Nintendo though

 I think the mentality comes from hardcore Nintendo fans believing that Nintendo is somehow the only company that cares about games. It's a fairly blind and ignorant mentality, considering that Sony has done nothing but prove the exact opposite for the last 2 decades. Some people are just that devoted to a single brand that they've entered an almost cultist mental state, and if their "god" disapears, they'll commit a sort of mass suicide (metaphorically speaking). 

Going third party would be great for Nintendo. Hell, I might actually start buying their games again.

Oh, they definitely could. Apple is worth far far more money than people give them credit for. 

By very very very far, being bought by Apple.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/02/apple-cash-mountain-grows

I would say that Apple buying Nintendo would be worse than going third party.

Of these two terrible scenarios, I would go with Apple...

Nintendo F2P on iPhones would make me cringe, and their freedom in developing games would be limited
I would rather buy a PS4 than an iPhone/pad to play Nintendo games

I'm pretty sure they are referring to the structure of Japanese laws not Apple not having the resources.