Apple Said to Acquire Color • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by r00fus » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:37 AM UTC

cjensen wrote: post #34

There's no reason for Apple to buy Color. A couple of patents on recently invented stuff? Unlikely. Buying the patents would make sense, not buying the company. Acquire a team? Why not just hire them? Is the team really that attached to a company going nowhere? So I call this rumor nonsense. On the other hand, if this rumor is true it says a lot about Apple management and none of it good.

And Google buying MOTO for $12B is good management? Motorola hasn't really produced anything of value since acquisition for Google aside from the patent pool.

$XXM is a drop in the bucket for Apple - they could fund 10x that without blinking if the patents were deemed to be worth it. They have 10000x that in the bank already.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by samstave » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:41 AM UTC

aresant wrote: post #62

Apple just jumped the shark if this is true. Bill Nguyen is massively talented at making things work for Bill Nguyen - his prior business bought by Apple for ~$80m, Lala.com, was lackluster at best. Under Jobs you could kind of, sort of get your head around $80m for essentially a talent acquisition in streaming / digital music which is/was an important revenue stream for AAPL. But even under Jobs the supposed golden…

I would say that the point is that there is a seed of tech which apple could acquire and put their army of eng on to make something along the same line of what color originally sought to do; Apple-instagram+facetime...

I would think that this is an exceptional acquisition that apple could make: no more color; a battle on instagram, facetime emulation and build upon the social image cloud idea that color started with...

and they wont be bogged down with colors staff - they will own all that color was, not what egos color is.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by pbreit » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:44 AM UTC

jey wrote: post #65

pbreit wrote: post #59

Are the sources sure that the rumors don't refer to Silicon Color which was reported yesterday?

That was on October 16 of 2006, not 2012.

Oh, crap, my bad!

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by radicaldreamer » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:45 AM UTC

Probably a good way to build the next generation of Photo Streams in iOS.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by scarmig » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:47 AM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #28

signa11 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you don't mind may you please elaborate on the above post in the context of this headline ? thank you !

Here's the real color.com VC pitch, not the fake one they distributed. ===== "Look, we want a bunch of money from you VCs. A LOT of it. Here's what we've got: Some great patents, and the prospect of some more as we continue R&D. More importantly, these patents are in a strategically critical space where Google, Samsung, Apple, and Microsoft are all vying for supremacy. "So here's what we're going to do with your mone…

I get that this is supposed to be comedic satire. But it really does have the ring of truth to it.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by alanh » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:51 AM UTC

siglesias wrote: post #68

aresant wrote: post #62

Apple just jumped the shark if this is true. Bill Nguyen is massively talented at making things work for Bill Nguyen - his prior business bought by Apple for ~$80m, Lala.com, was lackluster at best. Under Jobs you could kind of, sort of get your head around $80m for essentially a talent acquisition in streaming / digital music which is/was an important revenue stream for AAPL. But even under Jobs the supposed golden…

Last I checked iTunes Match, which is the child of the Lala team, is working pretty well.

Sarcasm? I’m an iTunes Match user, and while I love the dream, the reality isn’t quite there yet. The experience is pretty choppy, even confusing. (No, I’m not talking about buffering streams.)

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by pclark » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 5:52 AM UTC

I would have liked to see Hacker News applauding Bill Nugyen for landing in such a way if these rumours are true. Colour has a team, with no products nor leadership and they're going to sell for tens of millions of dollars. To the most successful company on the planet.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by Lukeas14 » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:10 AM UTC

ctide wrote: post #7

If you didn't think the patent system was fucked up before, you sure as fuck should know now.

According to this article and others those 6 patents are all still pending meaning they haven't yet been accepted by the PTO as valid patents. For less than $400 any of us can file a provisional patent with the PTO that would allow you to claim patent pending status. So unless Apple's lawyers are certain they'll be accepted they aren't worth much of anything right now.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by plinkplonk » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:13 AM UTC

clobber wrote: post #41

Post from Gruber today about Color: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/10/17/color-shut-down > Like I Said, $41 Million Down the Toilet

I eagerly await Gruber's 'pivot' on his opinion about Color, if Apple - the company that can do no wrong and is really playing 11 dimensional chess (as per his blog) - really acquired it.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by newhouseb » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 6:21 AM UTC

rdl wrote: post #32

I'm surprised Palantir didn't buy them just to take over their prime downtown Palo Alto real estate leases (one of the few big spaces not taken already by Palantir...)

Well, their current office space is technically illegal as at least the ground floor is zoned for retail. Remember how they had that silly little handwritten note on the (always locked) door that said "hi! We're color, come on in and say hi!"? That, apparently was enough (undoubtedly with their sway with the local govt) to fulfill the requirement that all places zoned for retail be accessible to the public.