Apple Rumored to Be Mulling Over Purchasing Sony Pictures

If this is true, then I think they're going to buy Netflix.

 

Huh? It's not 30 billion but 30 *million*?

 

It would make more sense, IMHO.

Bigger exposure and ability to further their stranglehold of the market. More money for original projects and it'd cut down on the licensing costs for the material they do have available in their Apple video library. And Netflix isn't profitable, either. Perfect time to snatch a company, really.

 

I've been making money shorting the stock of several companies the last few months.. Netflix might be the next. Sorry about the threadcrap.

 

"I'm in the stuff-making business."
"I just bought the competition, I'm in the leveraging business."
"I just bought a publisher, I'm in the property-licensing business."
"I just bought bought a studio, I'm in the franchise-shuffling business."
"I just bought the platform, I'm in the audience-controlling business."
"I just bought a senator, I don't have to tell you my business."

 

...and NEVER pay taxes!!!

 

if I were Apple, buying Netflix would be a priority.

 

For the first few years....and then square will be back in. One thing’s for sure, they will be newly letterboxed to be much, much thinner.

 

Apple has plenty of time to acquire Netflix, after they run short on capital.

 

Isn't that Apple's key demographic though? Those kind of hipsters that have beards and drink expensive coffee and queue up to buy any new Apple product on day one just because it is made by Apple? A24 would seem to be the sort of prestige company Apple would love to own.

FWIW I love A24. I read a list of their films last week and were amazed at how many I own and the quality they keep producing. It's all very different but at the same time all creator driven and very unique.

So I hope no-one buys them and they just keep doing what they have been doing brilliantly.

 

I always assumed Apple was the hipster's PARENTS 'gadgets-of-choice'....
so, who knows....

 

I've been streaming movies for a while- i used to use Vudu when it had higher quality than the rest, and largely rely on Amazon, adding HBO and periodically, another channel or two. I cut the cord when we moved to Austin.
Thinking aloud here, but since Big Tech is basically the gateway to content these days, and it is a giant maw to fill, is it sensible to pay for a large 'back-catalog'? I guess there's money to be made in licensing other video outlets to stream it, but my impression-- apart from serious movie buffs (who may still rely on hard disc Blu or whatever) and some oldsters who want to watch classics is--- if it ain't new, it isn't getting watched by the younger demographic. It will get remade, whether or not the remake comes close to the earlier movie (I actually did like Gaga's Star is Born, don't think less of me).
It would seem to me that the better way to spend the money is groups of directors to produce new stuff (isn't that what A24 is about?) and licensing content from third party owners, but I'm just shooting from the hip here.
A lot of the stuff I see listed on Amazon Prime (produced by Amazon) isn't of interest to me. I will watch an older movie now and again, or more typically, search out long TV series that I missed (we are watching The Shield right now-- saw a few episodes back in the day but never really watched it-- low rez, looks like 4:3 or whatever it is called aspect ratio, really lousy copies, but the content is good). I guess the question is whether back catalog is that valuable in today's market given the demographic and viewer habits.

 

Yes but would it be what Steve would've wanted?

 

I think if Steve Jobs saw Apple's current market value, he'd say, "wow, this is great!"

 

Apple Rumored to be Mulling Over Purchasing Planet Earth and Sticking a Huge Apple Logo on the Moon!

 

Good one Ghostworld!!

 

I guess that means they won't have headphone jacks.

 

I think that Bill Gates already has the first right of refusal on those options.