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Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 6, 2004 @05:13AM from the an-unlikely-marriage dept.

Anonymous writes "The Register has a comment piece of the marriage (speculative) between IBM and Apple. Although wildly speculative, it is not improbable. With IBM already supplying PowerPCs to Apple and Apple having not signed up to IBM's PowerPC consortia, there are hints in this get-together. Apple would also supply IBM with the "lifestyle" side of things. If it does happen, it would be most interesting."

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Re:Except... by HarveyBirdman · 2004-12-06 05:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

IBM is a company focused on growing its services biz and Apple has none. Apple is primarily a B2C company and IBM is B2B.
The optimal merger is not between two companies that do the same thing. The optimal merger is between two companies that do different but complimentary things.

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Re:Enterprise/business sales by njcoder · 2004-12-06 07:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

This would be interesting considering there is talk that IBM will be selling it's PC business to China
Maybe they're going to switch to selling macs instead?
I don't see it happening but it's an interesting coincidence to see these speculations published on the same day.

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