News are coming out Apple to buy Netflix

"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012) 01/02/2018 at 15:40 • Filed to: None

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If that happens, I will cancel Netflix. I have no love for Apple and won’t give them a dime of my money.

I also have no love for cable so I need to cut those somebitches off too.

It’s looking like I will need to renew my library card and read some books.

Rest in peace modern day world.

BeaterGT > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 15:43

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Less screen time? Fine by me as well. Plus, we have sports cars to enjoy!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 15:47

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I can’t see this happening. Netflix has been building it’s portfolio for the long game.

PartyPooper2012 > BeaterGT 01/02/2018 at 15:48

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My sports car is on summer tires.... gonna have to wait till spring.

Damn, it will literally be like back in Soviet Union.

Only one phone for the entire village. At the post office. Only one tv per entire village. At school. Only time to use car is in good weather.

I have gone a full 180. Going back in time and evolution

PartyPooper2012 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 01/02/2018 at 15:50

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They make little to no money. All their original content - they don’t charge end user any more than if they watched groundhogs day. Many people share their login to save money. I can see them getting to a point where they are going broke really fast

Tekamul > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 15:50

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Same.

Textured Soy Protein > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 15:54

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Taking sides of one corporate behemoth vs. another is silly. Corporate behemoths don’t care about you, they want you to give them the most possible money for the least possible effort on their part. You owe them no allegiance.

But hey if you hate Apple that much there’s always Hulu and Amazon.

nermal > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 15:55

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Meh.

PartyPooper2012 > Textured Soy Protein 01/02/2018 at 15:56

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everything in the world is now a side... coke or pepsi. toyota or honda. ford or chevy. apple or not apple

I can’t say I love Amazon, but I’ll be damned if I give apple any money... ever.

Textured Soy Protein > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 16:02

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There are no sides to being a consumer. Each purchase you make is an individual transaction. Buying a product from one corporation does not mean you are committing to continue to buy that company’s products and only that company’s products in the future. Corporations love brand loyalty because it gives them repeat business, but you do not owe them your loyalty. Either they make a product that best suits your needs, and you buy it, or they don’t, and you don’t.

Party-vi > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 16:05

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Apple is not going to spend $75B on Netflix - it’s too much for too little. Apple purchased Beats for $3B, the biggest purchase to-date for them (which took Tyrese Gibson leaking so I doubt Citi would have the scoop on something 20 times bigger), and they’ve already spent oodles of cash developing their own content since at least late 2015. Citi is throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. As soon as Apple doesn’t buy Netflix Citi will just say “oh well we said they might , so whatever”.

Plus, Netflix stock is at $201.07 a share right now, earning $1.05 for each share over the past 12 months. Correct me if I’m wrong but that would mean Apple sinks $75,000,000,000 into Netflix for a return of under $400M in the next year? Blech.

PartyPooper2012 > Party-vi 01/02/2018 at 16:17

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We shall wait and see. Stranger things (no pun intended) have happened.

PartyPooper2012 > Textured Soy Protein 01/02/2018 at 16:20

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I wish I could agree with you... but Apple zombies exist. They own almost every apple product just because apple. Nothing to do with their needs. Case in point - Apple watch.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 16:31

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Well I heard it here first.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 16:37

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From working at Apple for a couple years I can’t help but laugh when I hear things like this. The news cycle is always the same.

1) Apple has zero interest in buying.... AT&T.

2) Someone write an article suggesting Apple rumored to be buying... AT&T.

3) Bunch of articles and financial folks spouting about how great the fit would be.

4) Another bunch of articles decrying how it’s the worst idea ever conceived.

5) A few folks talk about how Apple is going out of business and this is a desperate attempt to stay afloat. Apple is just trying to stay alive.

6) Apple still has zero interest in AT&T and never did, ever.

but....

what if they bought.... Samsung!

Lather, rinse, repeat. The financial analysts don’t have jack to write about when everybody is closed for the holidays so it tends to get a little more far fetched this time of the year.

Textured Soy Protein > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 16:43

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I’m not saying people aren’t brand loyal. I’m saying there’s no reason to be.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 17:25

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Renewing your library card to read some books???

Are you some sort of COMMUNIST??

/jk

Spanfeller is a twat > Party-vi 01/02/2018 at 18:06

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But apple needs to continue diversifying. They depend too much on a single product (the Iphone) that is slouching on sales at the moment. I think Apple is really running out of Job’s Mojo and unless they can find some new mojo that’s gonna be an issue.

Monkey B > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 18:33

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everything will be owned by 2 companies in the future...been saying it for 20 years. It’s now apparent that that those two companies will be Apple and Alphabet (Google)

Apple owning Netflix I don’t like. There will most certainly be content exclusive to Apple devices and absolutely a disgusting amount of product placement in the original content.

Every year we see evidence that Idiocracy (the movie) is frighteningly becoming more real.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 21:05

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https://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-a-hit-tv-show/

Netflix has a long game in content creation. the major difference is that they have the user daat to bring their content to market much cheaper than any of their competitors. hense the crazy accurate knowledge of peoples secret

All apple purchases have been to highlight their core tech. itunes for the ipod, beats for the iphone/ipod. There are companies i could see apple buying fitbit, or paypal to highlight applepay.

also that guy has been saying apple is going to buy netflix for a while https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/citi-the-seven-companies-apple-could-buy.html   http://fortune.com/2016/10/05/five-reasons-apple-netflix/

DipodomysDeserti > PartyPooper2012 01/02/2018 at 21:30

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Nah, most people stop viewing things that way after a certain age.

PartyPooper2012 > DipodomysDeserti 01/03/2018 at 06:45

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I guess that age varies and my age will be infinity before Apple gets my money. Sorry Jobs

PartyPooper2012 > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/03/2018 at 06:47

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Interesting point of view. We shall wait and see I suppose. I hope to never see it happen.

PartyPooper2012 > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 01/03/2018 at 06:48

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Damn... All those school boys and school girls and college students... All communists! No wonder Bernie almost won

PartyPooper2012 > Textured Soy Protein 01/03/2018 at 06:52

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And I am agreeing with you. People who think for themselves, get to decide what works for them - product, service, cost etc. However, then there are those who can care less what product or service is being provided or what it costs... as long as that gizmo has that logo on it, they are happy as pigs in shit.

PartyPooper2012 > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief 01/03/2018 at 06:54

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You maybe right. Since I am not an apple junkie, I don’t really follow their news that closely. I saw it come across a news channel during the day and it caught my attention.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > PartyPooper2012 01/03/2018 at 10:20

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Yup... LOCK ‘EM UP ALONG WITH HILLARY!!!

DipodomysDeserti > PartyPooper2012 01/03/2018 at 13:02

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Hasn’t Jobs been dead for a while now?

PartyPooper2012 > DipodomysDeserti 01/03/2018 at 13:23

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Sure... but it’s his baby. These new CEOs have not really produced anything earth shattering. Changed the screen size slightly. Changed functionality a bit.. less headphone jack, more stylus. Nothing new really.

BlurpleToyotaDishwasher > Monkey B 01/03/2018 at 18:27

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You forgot Amazon.

DipodomysDeserti > PartyPooper2012 01/04/2018 at 00:01

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Yeah...but he’s dead.