 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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kudos:4 | Despite how big or successful. . . . . you are, go up against legacy VIDEO,,,,, LOSE!
even apple. theres just too much money there! |
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| said by dvd536:you are, go up against legacy VIDEO,,,,, LOSE!
even apple. theres just too much money there!
You do realize Apple could write a check tomorrow and buy Comcast for cash, right? Comcast has a market cap of 95 Billion. Apple has around $100 Billion in cash. Or they could spend $50 Billion and get a controlling stake in Comcast. That right there would give them TONS of leverage in content (NBC Universal), distribution, and clout with other content providers. |
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You do realize Apple could write a check tomorrow and buy Comcast for cash, right?
Only in your dreams but when you wake it it is not going to happen. Why? Dual classes of stock, the voting stocks are controlled by the Roberts Family. Apple can purchase all the common stocks they want, it amount to them being a majour common shareholders with LIMITED voting rights. You see sonny boy, it prevents poison pills and hostile takeovers. They cannot purchase the voting stocks. Google, this year decided to have a dual class of stock for the exact same reason Comcast it; so nobody can buy them out
In hindsight, Apple will need to purchase a sustainable revenue generating company after their products drops from Orbit and they are mortal again. They do not have the cloud of a Microsoft (as long as the majourity people use Windows). The cash will stop rather abruptly. |
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| said by floyd007:Only in your dreams but when you wake it it is not going to happen. Why? Dual classes of stock, the voting stocks are controlled by the Roberts Family. Apple can purchase all the common stocks they want, it amount to them being a majour common shareholders with LIMITED voting rights. You see sonny boy, it prevents poison pills and hostile takeovers. They cannot purchase the voting stocks. Google, this year decided to have a dual class of stock for the exact same reason Comcast it; so nobody can buy them out. Everyone has their price. I'm sure if Apple started waving billions around the Roberts they would bite. Especially if cord cutting is a long term phenomenon. The rules change greatly when you start waving large sums of money around.
Not that it would be a good investment for Apple. They'd be better off copying up to Murdoch for FOX or Disney, both of which have been cozy with Apple in the past.
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In hindsight, Apple will need to purchase a sustainable revenue generating company after their products drops from Orbit and they are mortal again. They do not have the cloud of a Microsoft (as long as the majourity people use Windows). The cash will stop rather abruptly.
Except Mac sales are outpacing the industry, iPhone sales are strong, iPad owns the tablet space, and generally they are doing great. Invincible, no but people thought GM would never go bankrupt. People also thought Microsoft was invincible and they are slowly heading on the downward spiral. For the first time in, well, ever Microsoft's market share is on a downward trend. About the only thing they have is their corporate customers, and many are looking hard art alternatives. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to itguy05
there is more to the value of a company than market cap. Toss in assets and I bet comcast is worth many times more than Apple is including the Apple cash pile.
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AVonGaussPremium
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Boynton Beach, FL | reply to floyd007
You seem to have missed their point, I don't think the poster was suggesting Apple should actually buy Comcast but rather an analogy to the resources at Apple's disposal. |
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AVonGaussPremium
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Boynton Beach, FL | reply to Kearnstd
said by Kearnstd:there is more to the value of a company than market cap. Toss in assets and I bet comcast is worth many times more than Apple is including the Apple cash pile.
I wouldn't put too much on that bet. |
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| said by AVonGauss:said by Kearnstd:there is more to the value of a company than market cap. Toss in assets and I bet comcast is worth many times more than Apple is including the Apple cash pile.
I wouldn't put too much on that bet.
He is right. Comcast, At&T, Verizon General Electric, Intel etc., has actual properties and recurring revenues that can be sold, Apple, Google (until they purchased Motorola Mobility), Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Myspace, Craig's List, DO NOT). They do not have the vast amount of hard assets as other companies if they have any at all. Even McDonald's does: Prime Real estate, they own the land in which the Quick Serve restaurants are built making them landowners. Microsoft does not BUt they have vast amount of recurring revenues from partners, vendors and clients. |
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AVonGaussPremium
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Boynton Beach, FL
1 edit | No, he's not. It's not the "be all of all lists", but here is a simple list version you can look at:
»money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/···ll_list/
said by floyd007: Comcast, At&T, Verizon General Electric, Intel etc., has actual properties and recurring revenues that can be sold, Apple, Google (until they purchased Motorola Mobility), Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Myspace, Craig's List, DO NOT). They do not have the vast amount of hard assets as other companies if they have any at all. Even McDonald's does: Prime Real estate, they own the land in which the Quick Serve restaurants are built making them landowners. Microsoft does not BUt they have vast amount of recurring revenues from partners, vendors and clients.
Interesting, but disparaging collection of companies you're choosing to compare. McDonald's is known for their hamburgers, but also for their heavy use of franchising - many McDonald's you go to are not owned by the corporation and most outparcels are not directly owned by the business operator but rather are under long term leases.
»www.entrepreneur.com/franchises/···0-0.html |
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