What Will Apple Do With Its Billions?

[Guest]

Opinion - How the times change.

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[Guest]

I never would have thought (even two years ago) I would be saying this, but, good job Apple! As the owner of a new Mac Book Pro, it all makes sense now. Intuitive OS, good hardware, valuable integrated software, and tons of things I thought I'd never use - that I do use. I think Apple's on the right track. And who'd 've thought? I guess we really don't need floppy drives anymore!

 

[snajper69]

Make something pretty and people will come that was apple strategy I think that is the only PC maker that you don't mind displaying in your living room. hahaha

 

[vherub]

Why the rush to spend? You answered your question in the first sentence: the alarming speed with which change can turn winners into losers. Perhaps, if the price was right, apple might take on another company, but I don't see the competition having made mergers that made strong business senses months or years later.
Apple still needs to focus on a sustained market share vs personal computers.

 

[KyleSTL]

Imagine that, you overprice your product and suddenly you have inordinate amounts of cash on hand. Way to go, Apple! Put the same components (save for the iPhone and iPod) in a pretty box and brainwash the customer base into thinking it has a superior product too, change double. I must say, I can't think of a better business plan (but again, I'm and engineer).

 

[howarchaic]

Maybe AMD.

Apple has always claimed to be a hardware maker. While relying on IBM and now Intel to make their cpus, they could now be looking for an in house solution. I was surprised when Apple went with Intel, as they are/were synonymous with the WINTEL world Apple claims to be the solution to. AMD has always been the underdog, the voice of freedom in the monopolistic world of CPU's, and Apple has the capital to make it work. Also, AMD has several fab facilities that could be converted to create more hardware. Why would they buy Yahoo? Most/all Apple users are fanatic Google users. Case in point: Google maps being boasted as a feature of the iPhone. Besides, why would a company known for its simplicity want to be associated with clutter friendly yahoo?

 

[seboj]

Or maybe they could use that cash to upgrade the parts in the computers they sell. That way, customers will no longer be overpaying tenfold for sub-par equipment.

 

[waikano]

Apple has always saved its cash. Even when they were "going bankrupt" they had around 4 billion. That was around 2000 or so. I have a suggestion though (although they will never do it). How about giving 19000 registered users (preferably US citizens) a million $. Wouldn't that cause some noise? Maybe get them some more good PR. As far as YAHOO, sorry but I would be surprised.

 

[kansur0]

Option: Apple buys AMD
Not to use AMD's processors...maybe more to garner AMD's forward thinking towards integrating CPU and GPU together on one chip. (mac mini) But aside from using AMD for their own machines...think of what this aquisition would do for the computer industry as a whole.

Right now AMD and Intel are in a continuous battle which is great for the price of hardware on the PC side and is really the only reason why people continue to buy PC...price. Look at AMD(ATI) and nVidia. Essentially the same thing...huge advances and price competition which really makes PC a powerful machine at a great price.

Now...pretend AMD disappears from the "PC" landscape and is solely the property of Apple. First off...If Apple did decide to use AMD chips in it's machines that would take a good sized portions of Intels business away from the leaving them to solely rely on the PC industry for revenue. Nobody to compete with and they have to recoup this loss somehow! Up goes the prices of CPU's! nVidia no longer has any competition and if Apple decides to use ATI technology as it's video display (which really isn't a huge step back considering how far behind they are in the video acceleration offerings anyways) nVidia would also lose Apple as a developer and have to solely rely on the PC market. nVidia raises thier prices too!

So now you have stale developements on both the CPU and GPU industries and higher prices. All of a sudden this forces Apple and PC to compete DIRECTLY with each other.

Now compare both operating systems plus the huge amount of incredible technologies that Apple offers in terms of integration on other multimedia fronts (aka iPod, iTouch, Iphone...plus whatever else the Apple engineers are working on) and compared to Windows?

I think even if they bought AMD just for the ATI side and killed the CPU battle on the PC side that alone would cripple the PC industry enough to make alot more people consider Mac.

Who knows...maybe Mac could make a new OS to instead use GPU technology to accelerate the computer?

Sounds crazy...but who knows. Once Apple has AMD's engineers (ATI and AMD combined) plus all the FABS they could probably use PA Semi's FABS as well and create enough processor output to compete with Intel in it's own market and OWN the very technology they put into every Mac they make?

Cheers!

 

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[citation][nom]KyleSTL[/nom]Imagine that, you overprice your product and suddenly you have inordinate amounts of cash on hand. Way to go, Apple! Put the same components (save for the iPhone and iPod) in a pretty box and brainwash the customer base into thinking it has a superior product too, change double. I must say, I can't think of a better business plan (but again, I'm and engineer).[/citation]

lol i couldnt have said it better.

yahoo is a trash website full of spam, apple would fit in perfectly. instead of an SUV driving across the screen when you go there, a trendy song can play on a full screen ad with eye catching colors swirling around with dancing sillouettes, soon you will forget what you even came for and will be buying more mp3's... oh and they can filter out all competition, so the sheep who buy apple will only have more apple products to look at. hehehe im delusional, i know.