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Apple looking to buy Disney?!?!
- Thread starter GrumpyFan
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artvandelay
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"You do not come to Glendale and talk to a man like Bob Iger like that!"
Hatbox Ghostbuster
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Cause if there is one thing lacking at Walt Disney World, its seeing the Apple logo everywhere... 
Laketravis
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I can certainly understand how Apple would benefit immensely from acquiring Disney. For electronic media content, absolutely. But physical assets like a theme park the size of a medium city? Maybe, maybe not. As others have pointed out, Apple could simply keep what benefits them and either sell off the theme parks or contract out the operations while maintaining license.
Or they could decide that a large theme park network would be a perfect environment to immerse millions of existing and potential hardware customers for days in a subliminal Apple experience. Apple really knows how to build an awesome HQ spaceship campus and probably wouldn't struggle at all with the creative required by a theme park. Essentially becoming the very thing they threw a sledgehammer at in 1984.
Or they could decide that a large theme park network would be a perfect environment to immerse millions of existing and potential hardware customers for days in a subliminal Apple experience. Apple really knows how to build an awesome HQ spaceship campus and probably wouldn't struggle at all with the creative required by a theme park. Essentially becoming the very thing they threw a sledgehammer at in 1984.
Chef Mickey
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For those of you saying it can't happen for financial reasons, totally inaccurate.
I don't know if AAPL will do it, but they could. Deals are not always made in straight cash homie, but AAPL could conceivably do it in cash with a new tax plan to bring home the $231b (more after this quarter) in cash from overseas. They can also use leverage (think AAPL could get a loan or issue bonds to raise capital)? They can also issue additional stock. They have every option at their disposal due to their insane cash flow. We are talking ~$65b in FCF annually. AAPL dwarfs DIS in profitability and size and Disney is hugely profitable and large.
I don't know if AAPL will do it, but they could. Deals are not always made in straight cash homie, but AAPL could conceivably do it in cash with a new tax plan to bring home the $231b (more after this quarter) in cash from overseas. They can also use leverage (think AAPL could get a loan or issue bonds to raise capital)? They can also issue additional stock. They have every option at their disposal due to their insane cash flow. We are talking ~$65b in FCF annually. AAPL dwarfs DIS in profitability and size and Disney is hugely profitable and large.
Would Disney want to be associated with some of the content of Netflix?
Scuttle
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I meant Apple wants to buy Netflix not Disney.
Laketravis
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Many people probably thought Apple would never venture into the medical research and device fields either.
But they have:
Apple Has A Secret Team Working On The Holy Grail For Diabetes
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But they have:
Apple Has A Secret Team Working On The Holy Grail For Diabetes
.
RSoxNo1
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I'd say there's a better chance of gerbils.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Instead of looking for the hidden Mickey, look for the hidden apple????
Goob
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Ahem, gerbils.
Goob
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But how can you be so sure it would be a terrible move? I personally don't want to see it, but maybe they would really blow some minds. Who knows. For some of you, WDW couldn't get much worse as it is.
lazyboy97o
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Distracted is probably a good way to describe Apple at the moment.