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Apple Considering a Break-Up?

Posted by pudge on 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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  1. Force? by kalidasa · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah, right, Apple investors forcing Steve Jobs to do something? Obviously TheDeal.com has never experienced the Reality Distortion Field (TM) full-force.