Is Apple Looking to Buy Disney?

louismg writes "This week, Barron's is suggesting that with Steve Jobs on board as the number one shareholder of Disney, following Pixar's acquisition, that Disney is ripe for the plucking for an acquisition by Apple. But look at the numbers. Apple has a $60 billion market cap, and Disney's is over $50 billion. Apple's cash on hand is in the $10 billion range. Wouldn't a Disney acquisition eliminate the possibility of working with NBC's shows on iTunes, or working with Viacom/MTV? It would seem the conflicts and competition would outweigh a purchase of Disney - Pixar or not."

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[Billly Gates]

I was looking for a mac for my father.

His gateway is dying. Well I figured in 10 years that the mac would have made progress in available software but it has declined seriously since the mid 1990's.

He needs to do his taxes and turbotax and other software is only available for windows now even if the marketshare is higher.

Tax season is coming so guess who is getting another wintel system?

Besides FOSS there is nothing besides a few niche graphical apps. Its still dying and FOSS is great for programmers but not average joes.

PS .. I was looking into getting a macbook pro for school as I am a MIS major and love the FOSS software. I am not anti-mac. But just stating the truth.

Unless Apple can get these vendors to ship products for the mac its not going to be a reality. I blame Microsoft for making c++ on windows so damn proprietary that its not even funny. Its so hard to port for anythign but windows taht many firms who produce software just gave up on non windows platforms.