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Steve Jobs to Sell Pixar and Join Disney Board?
mikeisme77 writes "According to the Washington Post, Pixar Studios is in discussions with Disney for a possible merger/buy out. Disney would own Pixar in exchange for $6.7 billion worth of stock in the Walt Disney Corp. Speculation has also arisen that such a deal may lead to Steve Jobs earning a position on Disney's board of directors. He would likely become Disney's largest individual share holder. Further speculation sees Jobs using his new found power to leverage Disney into releasing more content to the iTunes media service." Details also available from the Time Magazine site. We touched on this issue near the end of last year as well.
I bet Disney will be 4 times faster with Steve inside(tm).
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SCNR!
I welcome our new media overlord! Hail Jobs!
Steve Jobs at the next MacWorld wearing mouse ears. Now there's a sight I can't wait to see.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Now Disney movies will be sleek, easy to interface with, and pleasing to the eye! Disney toys will contain no small parts that could be snapped off! Disney rides will be stable, boring, and free of malfunction!
Sadly, Disney's video games will now suck - they'll all be stupid puzzles. And all Disney characters will be required to ditch the fancy costumes and go with oversized jeans and black turtlenecks.
That's the business world for you. It's all about compromise...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/19/news/companies/dis ney_steve/
The Apple/Next fiasco is well documented and I dont think you should use it as a historical yardstick here.
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It does make a great read though. Life really is stranger than fiction sometimes, and Steve Jobs has a way of making it so.
My mother-in-law has a rather unusual claim to fame. At a dinner with Steve Jobs once ( my father-in-law used to work for Apple, ) Steve asked her if she used the Apple-II her husband had been given.
"Oh no, I just dust it", she said.
I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall there
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will replace Space Mountain as the most popular ride in the parks. Will Mickey have to wear a black turtleneck??
What makes all these stories about Steve Jobs worthy of being on the front page of a webpage for geeks/nerds?
Yeah articles about a guy who runs one of the biggest and most innovative computer companies and one of the most well regarded computer graphics production houses has nothing to do with nerds. Computers and what happens with computer graphics and their affect upon the computer industry is more of a jock thing. I'm sure they're covering it on ESPN right now.
Wow, nobody's heard that prediction before. Apple--proudly going out of business for 30 years.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Yea, but how do you get the nasty Eisner smell out of everything? I don't think Lysol will do it.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. - Edward R. Murrow
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
But if Jobs teams with Apple, how long until Sony decides its better to cut off its own nose rather than allow their entertainment rival to make money off of their products?
Too late...Jobs is *already* in Apple. Sony's nose must be bleeding bigtime by now....
Well... hmm.
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AAPL : $76.08 per share, market cap $64.13 billion
SNE: $42.30 per share, market cap $42.13 billion
Yep, it must've already happened or something.
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Just for fun, think about what it would be like if Jobs had control of ABC.
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I think I see where you're going with this. If Jobs became the new CEO of Disney, Jobs would gain full control of ABC. If Jobs gained full control of ABC, he would have all the powers of a television network. If he had all the powers of a television network, then he'd have all the powers to make a deal with other television networks. If he had all the powers to make deals with other television networks, then he could sit down with Fox and buy the rights to Firefly. The he could restart the series, hopefully ignoring the unfortunate events of the movie, and the browncoats could win! Right? Right? Wahoo! You can't take the sky from me!
Um...
That is what you were getting at, wasn't it?
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Does it means Steve Jobs will appear in cartoons?
No, but it means Mickey's pants will have only one button.
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I never checked what it said at the end of "Jesus Christ Superstar" though...
It said: "Any similarity between this musical and entertainment, either living or dead, is entirely coincidental"
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