Apple Considering a Break-Up?

Posted by pudge on Monday May 12, 2003 @11:41PM from the yawn dept.

rlthomps-1 writes "Despite Apple's recent sucesses with the iTunes music store and the latest round of PowerBooks, TheDeal.com has an analysis of the options that Apple investors might force the company to take, including a breakup into separate hardware and software companies, a merger with both Universal and Pixar, or a leveraged buyout by private investors. Their analysis points to Palm as a case study for a successful breakup of a company that made both operating systems and hardware in a competitive market. Could separate Apple hardware and software companies revitalize the brand and challenge Microsoft's monopoly?" He forgot to call Apple "beleaguered;" however, he did say their decades-old position is "untenable."

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Re:Not likely by elphkotm · 2003-05-13 01:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Almost everything good about OS X has nothing to do with it's performance, so how does your stupid "it's SUPAR OPTIZMIZED!!11" idea fit in? Another fact: Video game consoles DO NOT have "better graphics" than the PC.

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Re:Apple demographics by General+Sherman · 2003-05-13 14:11 · Score: 0, Flamebait

*crams a black dildo up this annonymous cowards already distended ass* No problem. Did I mention that it's explosive? *bam* guess not.

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