I can’t help but think that Tim Cook would do an amazing job handling operations for Tesla. But imagine Elon Musk running apple. The next HomePod would probably also be a nuclear reactor to power your Tesla Apple power wall.
What value would Apple add to Tesla? Apple CarPlay is available from most manufacturers already. Maybe they could negotiate better with suppliers?
If Netflix takes a hit like is predicted in the article maybe Apple should buy that? They already have a streaming music offering and negotiate with studios for music rights. They could bundle their media rights negotiations and secure access to streaming video content for their devices. They might even shift some of the streaming burden to Apple’s own data centers to save costs.
DuckDuckGo is arguably a potential Apple acquisition. The company is small and easy to integrate. The privacy focus aligns with Apple’s messaging. Just give it an Apple skin, rebrand it as Siri Search, and integrate with Apple’s search ads. I just wonder if DDG’s search partnerships are sustainable once it starts taking away meaningful traffic from companies doing the “real work.”
I think a much better strategy would be to use the Japanese style buy partial ownership and then integrate each companies tech like how Toyota owns 16.5% of Subaru [0] and now Subaru is going to use Toyota's hybrid tech for their new crosstrek PHEV [1].
"What price X?" is a common expression, e.g., [1].
This happens to be a particularly awkward example, and I'm not sure if they're trying to use a figurative expression as a literal one, or if the confusion is intentional. I would say it's a valid sentence, but a bad one, both on its own and as an opening for this article.
I always thought that Apple should have pushed Project Titan to Tesla and realized any gains from afar. The problem is thst Tesla is on the rise and would be premium to what they could have paid a year ago.
