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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And in other news... by Jellybob · 2003-05-12 23:50 · Score: 5, Funny

... FreeBSD is dead, and MS are going to open the Windows source.
Uh, really? by Noodlenose · 2003-05-13 00:36 · Score: 5, Funny

As a stand-alone company, Apple's hardware unit could offer its users computers equipped with a Microsoft Windows operating system. That move alone, Kastner estimates, would double the company's market share.
Oh yes, very realistic. An Apple with i386 hardware running windows. Yes, I can definitely see how beneficial and appealing that would be.
Sheesh...