Apple To Buy Disney?!

barfownz · 02-27-2006, 09:46 PM

We were driving home from Drumline practice and my friends dad brings up that steve jobs and apple might buy out disney to be an Apple/Disney thing. What are your thoughts people? (my friends dad is hardcore on buisiness news.)

disneyguy · 02-27-2006, 09:50 PM

Apple will NEVER buy Disney. Disney is too big of a company for this kind of purchuse. They could become "partners" in some ways, but one will not take over the other.

-DG

dctrdez · 02-27-2006, 10:28 PM

Well, Comcast took a stab at it. I'd rather have Apple run Disney than Comcast.

I haven't heard anything about this, I'll look it up.

Piglet · 02-27-2006, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dctrdez

Well, Comcast took a stab at it. I'd rather have Apple run Disney than Comcast.

I haven't heard anything about this, I'll look it up.

What did you find out?

barfownz · 02-27-2006, 11:05 PM

My friend's dad is going to send me the newsletter he saw it in.

dctrdez · 02-27-2006, 11:11 PM

According to Barrons, the Dow-Jones magazine, Apple has a $10 billion dollar stock market advantage over Disney, which is greatly undervalued at the moment. Steve Jobs is also becoming the company's largest shareholder, even more than Eisner and Roy E. Disney. If Apple wants to take a stab at Disney, they could quite concievably buy the company. Things are just right economically.

Plus, with all the iPod downloading stuff from Disney, and the Pixar assimilation, things are even more ripe for a merger.

Personally, I wouldn't be upset with this if it actually happened. I see Apple as a company similar to Disney, based heavily on customer satisfaction and the marketing of an above-average product. The merging of these two juggernauts would make them a force to behold in the corporate world. It just makes sense.

barfownz · 02-27-2006, 11:36 PM

Disney is just to powerful, This cant be!

dctrdez · 02-27-2006, 11:41 PM

According to the market, Disney's not powerful enough. But, these things aren't set in stone. Again, this isn't a negative thing. I think it would be a good thing for Disney. It will be interesting to watch how it plays out.

Plus, it's still on the level of rumor and idle speculation at this point. Nothing official has been announced.

Executioner · 02-28-2006, 10:45 AM

I think Steve would be good for Disney and maybe help it to become the company Walt may have wanted it to have become. Pretty interesting though. I do have some reservations or concerns, but all in all, Steve might be the guy to really change the company for the better.

PeoplemoverMatt · 02-28-2006, 03:03 PM

There's no possible way Disney shareholders would approve of this. They can get pretty testy as one Michael Eisner found out.

-- PMM

Executioner · 02-28-2006, 03:43 PM

Very true. I am glad Comcast never bought Disney. I never liked them, they had the worst service in our area and the city pretty much forced them out. I guess we shall see what happens. Huge changes for Disney right now.

dctrdez · 02-28-2006, 05:23 PM

I think Disney is in a much different (and better) position now than it was in the last takeover attempt. Plus, I don't see the shareholders being too upset with a company like Apple merging with Disney (I wouldn't say it would be a takeover per se, more of a merger, if it ever were to happen). Then again, I'm no financial analyst, but it seems to me the two companies could easily see eye to eye, and both have enourmous potential worth.

Be sure to watch how the whole new Disney-Pixar relationship plays out in the next year or two. The only example of a similar situation to a Disney-Apple merger that I can think of right off the top of my head is the Time Warner/AOL merger.

At least it's nice to know most of the changes happening around Disney are for the general good of everybody. It's very exciting!

PeoplemoverMatt · 02-28-2006, 05:33 PM

The AOL/Time Warner merger was a good deal for no one. Hopefully they know enough not to repeat that mistake.

-- PMM

dctrdez · 02-28-2006, 05:39 PM

^^^Absolutely.

Granted, it was a completely different situation than Disney-Apple, but still. I like to look for past examples of similar events and study how they played out (or didn't).

Executioner · 02-28-2006, 06:20 PM

I could see it now. Try out the all new G6 with new special Pirate features that will bring you closer to the movies and the ride. With an all new pirate ship designed platform, you will surely be a swashbuckler. And edit your very own movie using Disneymovie, the new editing program designed just for that special Disney lover that loves all the sequels they make, so you can make it into a trilogy.

Think of the possibilities people. And now that Apple is using IBM chips, ohhhhh maaannnn!!!! We could actually be in a world of pain. There is my reservations from earlier. The whole capitalization of it all. Do they really need to own so much or have their hands in everything?

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dctrdez People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Club 33, Trophy Room Posts: 206	Well, Comcast took a stab at it. I'd rather have Apple run Disney than Comcast. I haven't heard anything about this, I'll look it up. __________________ Call me Doc... Official Armchair Imagineer FIGHT ON USC!!! The secret to Disneyland's magic (a la Ray Bradbury): Doing everything you think you don't need, and realizing that you needed it all along. All I want you to think about is when people walk through or have access to anything you design, I want them, when they leave, to have smiles on their faces. Just remember that. It's all I ask of you as a designer. -Walt Disney No, I'm actually not a member of Club 33...yet...someday!
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barfownz People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Temecula, California Posts: 2,361 Images: 10	My friend's dad is going to send me the newsletter he saw it in. __________________ *Your Friendly Neighborhood VF member, Barfownz!* Myspace YouTube
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dctrdez People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Club 33, Trophy Room Posts: 206	According to Barrons, the Dow-Jones magazine, Apple has a $10 billion dollar stock market advantage over Disney, which is greatly undervalued at the moment. Steve Jobs is also becoming the company's largest shareholder, even more than Eisner and Roy E. Disney. If Apple wants to take a stab at Disney, they could quite concievably buy the company. Things are just right economically. Plus, with all the iPod downloading stuff from Disney, and the Pixar assimilation, things are even more ripe for a merger. Personally, I wouldn't be upset with this if it actually happened. I see Apple as a company similar to Disney, based heavily on customer satisfaction and the marketing of an above-average product. The merging of these two juggernauts would make them a force to behold in the corporate world. It just makes sense. __________________ Call me Doc... Official Armchair Imagineer FIGHT ON USC!!! The secret to Disneyland's magic (a la Ray Bradbury): Doing everything you think you don't need, and realizing that you needed it all along. All I want you to think about is when people walk through or have access to anything you design, I want them, when they leave, to have smiles on their faces. Just remember that. It's all I ask of you as a designer. -Walt Disney No, I'm actually not a member of Club 33...yet...someday!
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barfownz People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Temecula, California Posts: 2,361 Images: 10	Disney is just to powerful, This cant be! __________________ *Your Friendly Neighborhood VF member, Barfownz!* Myspace YouTube
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02-27-2006, 11:41 PM	#8 (permalink)
dctrdez People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Club 33, Trophy Room Posts: 206	According to the market, Disney's not powerful enough. But, these things aren't set in stone. Again, this isn't a negative thing. I think it would be a good thing for Disney. It will be interesting to watch how it plays out. Plus, it's still on the level of rumor and idle speculation at this point. Nothing official has been announced. __________________ Call me Doc... Official Armchair Imagineer FIGHT ON USC!!! The secret to Disneyland's magic (a la Ray Bradbury): Doing everything you think you don't need, and realizing that you needed it all along. All I want you to think about is when people walk through or have access to anything you design, I want them, when they leave, to have smiles on their faces. Just remember that. It's all I ask of you as a designer. -Walt Disney No, I'm actually not a member of Club 33...yet...someday!
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02-28-2006, 10:45 AM	#9 (permalink)
Executioner The name says it all People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Between this world and the next. Posts: 2,196 Images: 70	I think Steve would be good for Disney and maybe help it to become the company Walt may have wanted it to have become. Pretty interesting though. I do have some reservations or concerns, but all in all, Steve might be the guy to really change the company for the better. __________________ A Different Kind Of Company A Different Kind Of Executioner
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PeoplemoverMatt An Objective Perspective People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,745 Images: 18	There's no possible way Disney shareholders would approve of this. They can get pretty testy as one Michael Eisner found out. -- PMM __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4
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02-28-2006, 03:43 PM	#11 (permalink)
Executioner The name says it all People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Between this world and the next. Posts: 2,196 Images: 70	Very true. I am glad Comcast never bought Disney. I never liked them, they had the worst service in our area and the city pretty much forced them out. I guess we shall see what happens. Huge changes for Disney right now. __________________ A Different Kind Of Company A Different Kind Of Executioner
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02-28-2006, 05:23 PM	#12 (permalink)
dctrdez People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Club 33, Trophy Room Posts: 206	I think Disney is in a much different (and better) position now than it was in the last takeover attempt. Plus, I don't see the shareholders being too upset with a company like Apple merging with Disney (I wouldn't say it would be a takeover per se, more of a merger, if it ever were to happen). Then again, I'm no financial analyst, but it seems to me the two companies could easily see eye to eye, and both have enourmous potential worth. Be sure to watch how the whole new Disney-Pixar relationship plays out in the next year or two. The only example of a similar situation to a Disney-Apple merger that I can think of right off the top of my head is the Time Warner/AOL merger. At least it's nice to know most of the changes happening around Disney are for the general good of everybody. It's very exciting! __________________ Call me Doc... Official Armchair Imagineer FIGHT ON USC!!! The secret to Disneyland's magic (a la Ray Bradbury): Doing everything you think you don't need, and realizing that you needed it all along. All I want you to think about is when people walk through or have access to anything you design, I want them, when they leave, to have smiles on their faces. Just remember that. It's all I ask of you as a designer. -Walt Disney No, I'm actually not a member of Club 33...yet...someday!
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02-28-2006, 05:33 PM	#13 (permalink)
PeoplemoverMatt An Objective Perspective People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,745 Images: 18	The AOL/Time Warner merger was a good deal for no one. Hopefully they know enough not to repeat that mistake. -- PMM __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4
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02-28-2006, 05:39 PM	#14 (permalink)
dctrdez People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Club 33, Trophy Room Posts: 206	^^^Absolutely. Granted, it was a completely different situation than Disney-Apple, but still. I like to look for past examples of similar events and study how they played out (or didn't). __________________ Call me Doc... Official Armchair Imagineer FIGHT ON USC!!! The secret to Disneyland's magic (a la Ray Bradbury): Doing everything you think you don't need, and realizing that you needed it all along. All I want you to think about is when people walk through or have access to anything you design, I want them, when they leave, to have smiles on their faces. Just remember that. It's all I ask of you as a designer. -Walt Disney No, I'm actually not a member of Club 33...yet...someday!
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02-28-2006, 06:20 PM	#15 (permalink)
Executioner The name says it all People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Between this world and the next. Posts: 2,196 Images: 70	I could see it now. Try out the all new G6 with new special Pirate features that will bring you closer to the movies and the ride. With an all new pirate ship designed platform, you will surely be a swashbuckler. And edit your very own movie using Disneymovie, the new editing program designed just for that special Disney lover that loves all the sequels they make, so you can make it into a trilogy. Think of the possibilities people. And now that Apple is using IBM chips, ohhhhh maaannnn!!!! We could actually be in a world of pain. There is my reservations from earlier. The whole capitalization of it all. Do they really need to own so much or have their hands in everything? __________________ A Different Kind Of Company A Different Kind Of Executioner
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