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I would not care, because Fox News is already much more influential than Disney is, and would not become that much more so simply by dint of owning some cartoon characters.
Children are much more accepting of the philosophies implied by what they watch.
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I was personally deeply shocked recently, when I sat with my children as they were watching the animated Iron Man series at their grandpas house. This was on Sunday morning TV. The episode was about other 'bad' characters stealing Iron Mans suit. I was alarmed when the dialog turned explicitly to talk of Patents and how evil it was that they were infringing Iron Mans designs. As I continued to watch it dawned on me t…
Kids don't give a shit.
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On the other hand, a pixar-enhanced reboot of DOTT ... now you're talking ...
Or Grim-Fandango HD for iOS. A man can dream, right?
Grim Fandango the movie, anyone?
Monopoly & Anti-Trust concerns, anyone?
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Most users of the Internet are dependent on Google to find anything on the Internet.
Nevertheless, you could flip the switch and turn Google off, and people would be able to find things on the internet just fine.
But people in general? I strongly doubt it. Hang out with some "non-technical people" (they will often helpfully describe themselves this way for you) while they use the computer sometime. If they didn't have Google, they might be able to get to Facebook, but that would be pretty much the boundary of the Internet for them.
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Hope they chose an awesome director for episode 7: http://www.businessinsider.com/five-directors-disney-should-...
That's a great list. Although I think that Brad Bird would be a natural choice as well.
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Simple: Because the strategy is to keep Apple out of the content biz, as owners. It keeps Apple as a customer , while the TV/Cable's themselves vertically integrate. This sets up the Tv/Cable-co's to to extract rents. Now Disney a Pixar, Lucas ESPN, et al; Comcast Universal & NBC. This Apple TV?...etc.
I seriously doubt that Apple wants to be in the content biz any more than they already are with their first party apps. I'd guess Steve was fairly cognizant of the fact that the decline of Sony was directly related to their media acquisitions in the late 80's. When the media people get seats at the big table you develop an institutional hostility to the sorts of disruptive devices that Apple wants to build and Sony u…
For a company the size of Apple, to get into content production it would be less expensive and quicker for them to acquire than to build it in house.
And for any good partnership, there needs to be a Win-win on both sides. If Apple were to sabotage it's content agnosticism, would probably hurt it's mobile market share.