Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says

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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