Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says

Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says by subsubzero on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:03PM (#23462193)

I feel like every year an analyst says Apple should buy something:

- Apple should by netflix and get into the streaming game(considering how much appleTV stinks this may be a good idea!)

- Apple should buy Disney, there is the synergy of two trusted brands in the entertainment/media space(Steve Jobs did own Pixar which Disney now owns)

- Apple should buy twitter, they can expand their news and reach a large connected audience.

Things I think Apple should do:

Buy a large email provider, they had a yearly $100 a year email subscription service but that was a flop, make it free and make it iOS exclusive(as an alternative to gmail).

Buy Spotify, given they have iTunes getting spotify would make sense, perhaps antitrust issues with this one.

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Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says by skinnymuch on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:32PM (#23462719)

Netflix makes the most sense. Definitely made the most sense in hindsight or bullish on Netflix. Buying it for $100B or so would’ve been great. Apple would’ve been in an insanely strong position right now with whatever combined thing they’d come out with. For the sake of a competitive market, I’m happy it didn’t happen. I much prefer Netflix not being owned by a bigger company.

I don’t get Spotify. Spotify would cost $40B+ to buy after the premium they’d have to offer. Apple Music keeps growing its user base. Not sure if it would be allowed by regulators. There’s still Rhapsody in the west for music. Beyond that I don’t think any streaming service survived.

Again for the sake of competitiveness I wouldn’t want this to happen. I still miss Rdio’s design. Along with other things I don’t think Spotify or Apple Music really improved on since the Rdio, MOG, Zune music (forgot the name now) days, early Spotify, Rhapsody/Napster days.

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Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says by Nasrudith on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:58AM (#23466684)

Netflix would have made more sense certainly but I suspect they would have "pruded" it to death given their failed attempts and interference with Apple TV over things which may offend utterly irrelevant demographics.

Even if independent a company would have been a good investment doesn't mean that they would leave the damn thing alone and not ruin it in practice.

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Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says by hellotomyrars on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:43PM (#23462419)

They are an email provider. And it's already exclusive. You need a Mac/iOS device to get an icloud email address.

iTunes/Apple Music is incredibly healthy and the only reason to buy Spotify is to extinguish the biggest competition they have. There is no other benefit to them and it's a bad look aside from any potential legal issues.

Things I think Apple should do:

Something that other people aren't doing.

Extensively and seriously overhaul or eliminate their traditional computing business. (They are poised to do this and may very well in the coming years with their ARM on Mac strategy). I realize that the new Mac Pro is marketed to a very specific set of people but my latest iPhone cost significantly less than the wheels they will sell you for the Mac Pro. It makes no sense.

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