“Almost everyone knows that Apple is sitting on a huge pile of cash, around $24.5 billion. That might be enough to fill one of Scrooge McDuck’s cash vaults, but there have to be some other interesting things to do with that much money,” Frank Fox writes for Low End Mac.
“While feeling depressed about how low the value of Apple stock has fallen recently (below $90 per share), I checked out some other companies that are falling due to the same economic worries. There I saw the perfect company that is finally cheap enough that Apple can buy the whole thing: Dell,” Fox writes. “That’s right, Dell has a market capitalization of only $18.55 billion. Apple can buy it and still have money left over.”
MacDailyNews Take: You could’ve just read MacDailyNews last month: Apple could buy Dell outright; Mac-maker has more cash on hand than Dell is worth – October 21, 2008
Fox continues, explaining that Apple should buy Dell for “total shock value,” for help getting a foot in the door in enterprise, and for a brand that Apple “could use for selling low spec PC with Mac OS X installed without diluting its own brand value.”
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No way!
um, yah, we’ve seen this before.
The general consensus is that it would be a waste of money, they may get a toehold into the ‘enterprise’ market but it wouldn’t be worth the money put into it.
Why the hell would they? Dell is a sinking ship-why would any smart company take on the headaches of a business like Dell when they already have more money than it’s worth? Yawn. Yawn +1.
Why? This makes zero sense. If Apple really wanted to bash their way into enterprise, they could license OSX to Dell and MAKE money instead os spend it. If they wanted a low-end PC. they could make one for a lot less than $18B. Simply plop a MacMini into a slightly expandable case.
Terrible Idea. Who ever came up with that idea is a moron . This idiot needs to be working at a car wash instead of writing stupid crap like that.
WHAT A STUPID IDEA. Why not just put your cash on fire?
Dell and other PC vendors are competing against each other. That benefits Apple. (Divide and conquer.) Why in the world would they want to waste such a huge chunk of cash to give HP a Christmas present?
And since when did Apple want a big entry into the enterprise, and was unable to get it on it’s own merits? When they really try, they succeed!
Apple’s stockholders don’t want Windows machines. Why should Apple buy a bunch?
S. Jobs and his team may want to gain more market share, but they want to do it with “insanely great products” not with cheap, down-market computers.
Apple won’t try to buy its way to the top but get there by being better.
Yep, I can hear the conversation in the Cupertino board room going like this;
#3: “Hey, DELL is doing quite poorly.”
#4: “Oh. Well let’s spend most of our cash by purchasing this failing company.”
Others: “Yes, yes!” “Good idea!” “Let’s invest most of our cash in failure!” “Hear hear!”
Sound like a typical Apple move?
I’ve forgotten if Apple could buy Adobe, but if they could, then they should.
That would mean that they could build Photoshop and Illustrator into iLife – and charge more for upgrades/new discs.
They could also hold onto PDF software for as long as it takes for PCs to be crippled. They could encode PDFs so that Windows couldn’t read more than 3 images in one file, for instance. Mind you, they could do that anyway.
Adobe: Bought: One less company being late with Mac OS X software releases. Sounds like sense.
Of course, they probably won’t, but I think there are opportunities.
Think Different.
They no longer get to have fox hunts in England do they.
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I do not understand the question!
Buying a PC retailer when Mac is a best seller? What for? Dell should shut down and give the money back to its shareholders… period.
There are lot better stuff to buy… and better servers manufacturers… Sun Microsystem would be much more shinny to get under the hood!
The question posed is incomprehensibly silly – why on earth would Apple want to buy Dell? Dell is running itself into the ground and is headed towards increasing irrelevancy; there is nothing that Dell has to offer Apple. To pose this question as a hypothetical is just a waste of everyone’s time. Apple would never buy Dell and there is no reason to even contemplate a scenario where this would happen.
Agreed, buy Sun, atleast they are a tech company. Besides if Apple were going to buy a manufacturer, wouldn’t they buy the big 3 north american auto makers????? They only need another 500 million.
apple should stick to their game plan.
1. That $24.5billion is going to get them through the economic mess so they don’t lose workers in all areas.
2. There is nothing that DELL has that apple wants. Don’t say market share, cuz then all those windows machines that fail are then apple’s headache. BAD BAD.
3. Apple is doing just fine. The stock share does not translate how the company is doing in sales and performance.
4. DELL sucks period.
5. Well Apple is doing just fine. They sometimes come out with a redefining product, or just make the ones out there just that much better that makes you feel good that made a cash worthy purchase.
6. Dell suck period.i got in trouble at work for bring in my own mac mini to replace my dell desktop given to me. and my supervisor got pissed cuz i was able to get all my work done and he didn’t, what an asshole.
I could buy a rusted-out ’63 Ford Falcon cheap and have cash left over, too. Something being affordable doesn’t necessarily make it a good value or a smart purchase.
Stop smoking crack…
Dell adds no value.
This is nothing more tyhan a hit trolling article. DELL has absolutely nothing of value to Apple. End of story.
@Torn Jeans
Frank Fox writes…
This guy knows nothing about the tech industry, otherwise he would never even propose such a thing.
God sakes!!! All this idiotic crap about Apple buying this or that! DELL!!! I mean crap like this getting airtime is one of the downsides of the internet, if it was only a print world the only rag that might print it would probably run the story next to the latest Elvis sighting..
Why not try and buy mcDonalds, or Woolworths or thick woolie socks or Ann Summers (similar logo?) its just tedious fucking bollocks!!!
As stated by somebody above, it makes much more sense for Apple to buy Adobe then it does for Apple to buy Dell.
Apple WOULD NEVER and SHOULD NEVER buy Dell.
Buying Dell would be like going back in time and buying the Titanic.
Why would you do THAT?!!
Connor Macbook said:
“Dell adds no value.”
Never has a truer word been spoken.