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Staring At The Sun Too Long (3/8/01)
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Bored with the same old refuses-to-die Disney-Apple buyout rumors? Disappointed that the Sony-Apple buyout rumors vanished quicker than Microsoft's credibility on the witness stand? Mourning the fact that the AOL-Apple takeover rumors never even got off the ground? Sounds to us like you could use a refreshing little trip down Memory Lane, friend. And we've got just the thing: a buyout scenario you never thought you'd see again.
Faithful viewer David Marcantonio clued us in on the fact that at least one analyst is publicly musing the synergy of an Apple takeover by-- wait for it-- Sun. According to a Reuters article about the slowdown in the personal computer market and the inevitable industry consolidation that it will bring, analyst Michael Kwatinetz thinks that Apple's "unique nichy workstation-type aura" might make it a "good complement to Sun as a Sun segment." Sun buying Apple? If you've been around for a while, that concept shouldn't be entirely foreign to you; Sun did make an offer to buy Apple back in the Scary Days of the mid-'90s. We seem to recall that the offer was so chintzy, even the Apple of old (bleeding red ink from a million cuts) couldn't justify a sale at such a low-ball price.
This isn't to say that a Sun-Apple merger is actually in the works, or even on the radar; it's just one analyst talking out of his assets. Aside from the fact that both companies are run by men who, either publicly or privately, long to see Microsoft razed to the ground and the world's largest amusement park erected over the rubble, we just don't see a buyout by Sun happening anytime soon. Sun had its chance years ago, refused to loosen its purse-strings, and blew its one shot. Heck, these days, market caps notwithstanding, Apple has more cash on hand than Sun does. Still, it's a nice break from that stale old Disney hoo-ha, isn't it?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/8/01 episode: March 8, 2001: Brace yourselves; the G4 may hit 1 GHz by the end of the summer. Meanwhile, one analyst raises the long-dead specter of an Apple takeover by Sun, and allegedly leaked photos of Handspring's latest handheld bears a spooky resemblance to the PowerBook G4...
Other scenes from that episode: 2910: Apple: 1 Gigahertz Or Bust (3/8/01) Okay, we just realized something slightly odd; we spent so long complaining about PowerPC G4 production stalling out at 500 MHz last year, we seem to have gotten "stuck" at the half-gigahertz level just like Motorola did... 2912: Titanium's Little Brother? (3/8/01) Still holding out hope for an Apple-branded PDA to replace the years-dead Newton? If so, then you're far more optimistic than we are. We waited patiently (well, okay, not that patiently) for years, but the Mac OS-based handheld that Steve promised us in 1999 just never surfaced...
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