Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
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#2I'm beginning to think maintaining competitive markets requires broader criteria. Like any of super-majority share of: market volume, revenue within a market, influence over market, consumer harm, significant reduction in number of competitors.
Re: Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
#3Is that a lot? How many does a similarly positioned company buy, say Alphabet, Dell, or Cisco? Seems like every time I find a neat niche networking or security product I like, Cisco or someone ends up buying it. Context would’ve been helpful in this article.
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#4> Mr Cook told the shareholders meeting that the acquisitions are mostly aimed at acquiring technology and talent
What’s the median acquisition size? Heck, what’s the 75th percentile?
I’d bet most of these acquisitions are of lifestyle businesses with few/no paths to scale. Probably just aimed at the tech teams or execs.
Nothing much to see here
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#6I'm beginning to think maintaining competitive markets requires broader criteria. Like any of super-majority share of: market volume, revenue within a market, influence over market, consumer harm, significant reduction in number of competitors.
Why?
Re: Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
#7> Mr Cook told the shareholders meeting that the acquisitions are mostly aimed at acquiring technology and talent What’s the median acquisition size? Heck, what’s the 75th percentile? I’d bet most of these acquisitions are of lifestyle businesses with few/no paths to scale. Probably just aimed at the tech teams or execs. Nothing much to see here
It's mostly about talent but nobody wants to embarrass the entrepreneurs?
Re: Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
#8> Mr Cook told the shareholders meeting that the acquisitions are mostly aimed at acquiring technology and talent What’s the median acquisition size? Heck, what’s the 75th percentile? I’d bet most of these acquisitions are of lifestyle businesses with few/no paths to scale. Probably just aimed at the tech teams or execs. Nothing much to see here
It's mostly about talent but nobody wants to embarrass the entrepreneurs?
Why is it embarrassing?
They obviously did well enough to be worth acquiring.
Re: Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
#9So ~15 companies a year? That doesn't sound outrageous for a company with billions and billions of dollars in the bank, and billions more coming in every quarter.
edit: If anything there's probably immense pressure on Cook to buy buy buy more stuff. I don't think anyone inside Apple wants to have a repeat of stuff like old Apple maps or other products that just languished and died internally while external companies innovated. Easier to just spray the money & acquisition cannon around indiscriminately.
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