“Brian S Hall has an idea that could spice up an otherwise lackluster press conference: Some kind of joint venture with Bloomberg’s financial publishing empire,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Fortune. “‘Consider the possibilities,’ he writes, ‘of an Apple – Bloomberg tie-up.'”
Hall writes:
Apple can instantly and probably significantly grow their iPad business. Those Wall Street guys and rich Hong Kong expats and other Bloomberg customers will absolutely want to show their real-time Bloomberg data on their iPad.
And they can begin placing financial data on Macs with those sweet big screens instead of Bloomberg terminals. Even now, banks and other financial institutions can afford the Apple margins. Fact is, Bloomberg’s ‘closed’ terminal model probably won’t last forever. Placing ‘locked’ Bloomberg data on the tightly controlled Apple system may be the perfect answer.
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
eh.
Migrating Bloomberg’s HAM protocol to the iPad, with its emphasis on security, would be a strong signal of confidence in the platform.
That works well with EGS, too, particular after data scrambling.
The HAM protocol is being subducted by the SAUSG McMFFN since BACN is no longer part of the TOST curve. Look for Bloomberg to incorporate more TUNA benefits for their SHRK employees.
Apple is selling iPads by the 10s of millions. Bloomberg is a niche service.
Does nothing for Apple. But it would be a huge boost for Bloomberg.
Clearly you only know about the current Bloomberg iPhone/iPad app and NOT the full Bloomberg service.
currently, APPL is valued at 381.9 billion dollars..what is “full Bloomberg service” worth? Clearly, you don’t know shit about money. Like Dispoableidentity noted, Bloomberg is a niche service.
So you get millionaires and billionaires using your product.
Its terrible to get those with the most disposable income on your plant forums.
LOL
And how many company’s and employees to they fund! You get the big cheese, it all spills down hill
millionaires and billionaires also use toilet paper, but unlike the parasitic Bloomberg, Kimberly & Clark actually make something…your point?
oh yeah…LOL.
April 1st comes earlier each year ;-p
Those Bloomberg terminals are batshit crazy and so proprietary they defy description. The idea of Apple having anything to do with something so far from their core competency is…is…somewhere deep into a reality desert.
From memory lane, the server side has some of the very best and worst Fortran code I’ve ever seen, in a mix with C and C++ and JavaScript galore all accessed through a Windows client – YUK
Then there’s Citrix on top for the iPad.
The next Ice Age will arrive sooner than an Apple solution rewrite. Oh…and the screens GUI gives you a headache.
It sounds like it is time for a major rewrite! I doubt they would fork out the funds to do that, even off-shore.