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A friend of mine was telling me he heard Apple and HP merged. Has anyone heard about this? I do know that Apple and HP were working together with the iPods. So I was just wondering if anyone had any insight on this.
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Ask your friend where he got this information, because it sounds like he's the only one who knows it. Apple is a tiny company, compared to HP, and there would be no reason for HP to have an interest in it.
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Tell your friend he is a liar. And likes goats.
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Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
Tell your friend he is a liar.
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I agree.
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<some witty quote that identifies my originality as a person except for the fact everyone else does the same thing>
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your friend's wrong.
or is he?
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Does your friend work for Think Secret?
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Originally posted by Albert Pujols:
Does your friend work for Think Secret?
I bet his friend works for Mac OS Rumors.
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Originally posted by goMac:
I bet his friend works for Mac OS Rumors.
I was going to use Mac OS Rumors, but then I realized Think Secret got Powerbook rumors wrong atleast 2,462,682,858 times.
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Maybe he's think about the iPod licensing thing.
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Tell your friend that Microsoft owns both HP and Apple, but Sony owns Microsoft, but HP recently purchased Microsoft, who in turn purchased Sony.
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Originally posted by trek2008:
A friend of mine was telling me he heard Apple and HP merged. Has anyone heard about this? I do know that Apple and HP were working together with the iPods. So I was just wondering if anyone had any insight on this.
If such a thing happened it would be CNN coverage about it. That would be a major thing and it would be all over the place and easy to find info about it.
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No apple/HP merger, but there is a deal Apple made with HP where HP essentially resells apple ipods "Apple iPod +HP", and in turn HP has to bundle iTunes with every computer they sale.
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Originally posted by Albert Pujols:
Does your friend work for Think Secret?
Nope, I think he works for SpyMac. Rumor has it that HP and Apple are going to make a PDA together. It's called the HiPWalk.
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Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Was he smoking crack?
...and drunk?
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Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
Tell your friend that Microsoft owns both HP and Apple, but Sony owns Microsoft, but HP recently purchased Microsoft, who in turn purchased Sony.
That explains how Microsoft invented the Mac GUI. And besides, BP/Amoco just bought them all.
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Sainsbury's merged with Apple earlier this year.
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Tell your friend "You're FIRED!"
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Next time you see your friend, just start hitting him with a stick.
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Originally posted by KarlG:
Apple is a tiny company, compared to HP, and there would be no reason for HP to have an interest in it.
I wouldn't call a 30 billion dollar company tiny even compared to a 56 billion dollar one, but you're way off saying that there would be no reason for them to have an interest in it. Almost everyone has interest in Apple, especially now that they are doing so well.
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Originally posted by Lateralus:
Next time you see your friend, just start hitting him with a stick.
Just curious, did you think of Cartman?
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Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Just curious, did you think of Cartman?
...yes.
Though, when he started hitting Kenny after he caught on fire, it was much funnier.
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Yep, they merged. Price?
Eleventy billion of course.
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Originally posted by Lateralus:
...yes.
Though, when he started hitting Kenny after he caught on fire, it was much funnier.
Cool. But we can't take Cartman amiss that he does so. It's just his way of life�
Do you remember the Episode where the boys encounter the underpants gnomes? I was rotfl when Stan says: "Psss. Don't scare him" and then Cartman just starts beating the gnome!
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Why would HP be interested in a fruit company? err wait nevermind....
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HP carcass blue on Apple products? ::shudder::
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Originally posted by John Q. Smith:
Sainsbury's merged with Apple earlier this year.
Really? I have it from a reliable source that it was in fact B&Q.
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A goat told me Apple changed their name to Orange.
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Originally posted by shabbasuraj:
A goat told me Apple changed their name to Orange.
That explains the iPhone rumours then!
A (PC owner) friend of mine told me the Mac mini was nothing more than a repackaged Xbox with Mac OS X installed, and that half the money from Mac mini's goes to Bill Gates, because Microsoft bought a share of Apple a few years ago and thats why they had Internet Explorer on Macs.
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Originally posted by ajprice:
That explains the iPhone rumours then!
A (PC owner) friend of mine told me the Mac mini was nothing more than a repackaged Xbox with Mac OS X installed, and that half the money from Mac mini's goes to Bill Gates, because Microsoft bought a share of Apple a few years ago and thats why they had Internet Explorer on Macs.
this is sorta off topic but why did mac os x come bundled with internet explorer.
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Because it was the major browser at the time since Netscape had fallen off the face of the earth.
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Originally posted by Mafia:
this is sorta off topic but why did mac os x come bundled with internet explorer.
Because there weren't any other browsers that would run on it at the time?
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Originally posted by Mafia:
this is sorta off topic but why did mac os x come bundled with internet explorer.
Internet Explorer and Netscape came bundled with Macs for years. When OS X was released, IE was by far the favourite browser under OS 9, and the only browser that functioned decently under OS X.
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Tell your friend he doesn't know what he's talking about, NeXT bought Apple forever ago
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i figured it was that but i wasn't sure.
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Originally posted by mrtew:
Because there weren't any other browsers that would run on it at the time?
Almost. OmniWeb was available and was (even then) a much nicer browser. However, there were a lot of sites that didn't play nicely with OmniWeb (which has since been overcome).
At the time, IE was the only OS X browser that would work with 99% of web sites. It was a POS, but there was little other choice.
I always used OmniWeb at that time, and only used IE, when needed. Nowadays, I use Camino, and never use IE.
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Originally posted by Brass:
Almost. OmniWeb was available and was (even then) a much nicer browser. However, there were a lot of sites that didn't play nicely with OmniWeb (which has since been overcome).
At the time, IE was the only OS X browser that would work with 99% of web sites. It was a POS, but there was little other choice.
I always used OmniWeb at that time, and only used IE, when needed. Nowadays, I use Camino, and never use IE.
Even then, I'm not sure there was a native OS X version of OmniWeb for a bit. IE was pretty much native since day one.
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Originally posted by goMac:
Even then, I'm not sure there was a native OS X version of OmniWeb for a bit. IE was pretty much native since day one.
Yes there was. OmniWeb has been around a LOT longer than OS X has. It was on Next Step and it was on the public beta of OS X, before the official release.
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I like it as long as Apple still makes Mac OS X and the current line-up.
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Originally posted by mrtew:
I wouldn't call a 30 billion dollar company tiny even compared to a 56 billion dollar one, but you're way off saying that there would be no reason for them to have an interest in it. Almost everyone has interest in Apple, especially now that they are doing so well.
I'm not sure where you get $30 billion from, but last quarter, Apple had it's best quarter ever, and did $3.49 billion in sales. If you're very optimistic and multiply that times 4, you under $14 billion; that's under 1/4 of HP's revenues.
I will still maintain that HP has no interest in purchasing Apple; it's an entirely different culture and product, and I'm sure Carly Fiorina knows that. It would still be a distraction to them.
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Originally posted by Brass:
Yes there was. OmniWeb has been around a LOT longer than OS X has. It was on Next Step and it was on the public beta of OS X, before the official release.
Yeah, but a program still required some porting from NextStep to OS X. Not to mention OmniWeb was built for x86, not PPC Rhapsody/OS X.
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Originally posted by KarlG:
I'm not sure where you get $30 billion from, but last quarter, Apple had it's best quarter ever, and did $3.49 billion in sales. If you're very optimistic and multiply that times 4, you under $14 billion; that's under 1/4 of HP's revenues.
I will still maintain that HP has no interest in purchasing Apple; it's an entirely different culture and product, and I'm sure Carly Fiorina knows that. It would still be a distraction to them.
Yeah, but I would have bet you all the money in the world that Mercedes would have no interest in purchasing Chrysler. After that incident I'd believe anything, especially a huge bland 'clone' company purchasing a tight lean creative powerhouse that they've already shown interest in marketing said company's hot products.
The value of a company is listed in their financial reports as the number of shares times the value of each share. There are other ways of valuing companies I'm sure.
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You friend took "National Treasure" a little too seriously.
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Originally posted by goMac:
Yeah, but a program still required some porting from NextStep to OS X. Not to mention OmniWeb was built for x86, not PPC Rhapsody/OS X.
I think you missed the point, which was that OmniWeb FOR OS X was out before OS X was, at least before version 10.0 was. I ran it on the OS X public beta.
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