ch00fWhat’s a company that objectively improved after if got “bought out?”
Not an apple fan really at all but buying that chip design company way back when seems to have been the right move. The M1 chip in my mbp is fantastic.
Even before that, Apple owes its very existence to an acquisition. Acquiring Next allowed them to abandon their dying OS and start anew with OS X, and brought back in founder Steve Jobs (who Apple had previously fired). With Steve Jobs at the helm, they made the computers cool again to buy some time before the iPod completely turned the company around.
bob_wileyIt was almost like NeXT was acquiring Apple for their branding, with the way it turned out.
A similar thing happened with Pixar/Disney, where post acquisition Disney Animation Studios started to work a lot more like Pixar. Interestingly, Steve Jobs was also affiliated with Pixar.
I bet with AppleTV+ Apple is wishing Jobs integrated Pixar into Apple instead of selling to Disney.
Dark_BladeNah, that would’ve spread the company too thin. Apple needed that laser-focus approach they had in the iPhone days, else they’d be dead.