*I'm not a financial person by any means, so I have done no research if this is even fiscally possible.
After seeing the keynote, and listening to some podcasts. It seems many internet based companies have been merging of late. On TWIT, they discussed some possible mergers this year that could happen. The first was Google eating up AOL, and Microsoft following suit by swallowing Yahoo.
Personally, I think it makes sense that Apple pick up Yahoo, a company now on the decline due to better offerings from Google and slow evolution of some of their flagship "products". Lets face it, Apple will need a solid "content provider" for all the upcoming product lines, and who better than the company that practically transformed the way we use the internet. Just think about it. Apple would add a TON of services (Flickr, Mail, MyYahoo, Geocities, Fantasy Sports, Del.icio.us, etc) to their repository and can try to reclaim some of those lost users. To me it just makes sense, both sides would win and this "partnership" with Yahoo IMAP with every iPhone leads me to believe that Yahoo is really positioning itself to be acquired by Apple, and Apple is in a "try before you buy" mode.
You don't really think Apple Computer, Inc became Apple, Inc for sake of the iPod and iPhone...do you? I know I don't.
It definitely would be a MEGA merger. I'd expect Apple to keep the name, with a Yahoo brand of sorts.
Discuss...
After seeing the keynote, and listening to some podcasts. It seems many internet based companies have been merging of late. On TWIT, they discussed some possible mergers this year that could happen. The first was Google eating up AOL, and Microsoft following suit by swallowing Yahoo.
Personally, I think it makes sense that Apple pick up Yahoo, a company now on the decline due to better offerings from Google and slow evolution of some of their flagship "products". Lets face it, Apple will need a solid "content provider" for all the upcoming product lines, and who better than the company that practically transformed the way we use the internet. Just think about it. Apple would add a TON of services (Flickr, Mail, MyYahoo, Geocities, Fantasy Sports, Del.icio.us, etc) to their repository and can try to reclaim some of those lost users. To me it just makes sense, both sides would win and this "partnership" with Yahoo IMAP with every iPhone leads me to believe that Yahoo is really positioning itself to be acquired by Apple, and Apple is in a "try before you buy" mode.
You don't really think Apple Computer, Inc became Apple, Inc for sake of the iPod and iPhone...do you? I know I don't.
It definitely would be a MEGA merger. I'd expect Apple to keep the name, with a Yahoo brand of sorts.
Discuss...
