What Company Should Apple Buy Next?

[Mat]

The resurgence we have seen in macs since the introduction of the iMac, is because Apple dropped all of the PDAs, printers etc. and focussed on what they do best...making computers.

I am now becoming a little afraid that they are going to branch out again and lose sight of what they do best. If Apple continues into iSights and other cameras and things it seems very likely to happen again.

Mat

[Arden]

I was recently wondering what happened to the Apple printers.

[Randman]

Apple should buy Creative.

[Perseus]

Apple should buy Pringles so the people in the office get a lifetime supply of tasty potato chips.

[Arden]

D'huyah, what? Why?

If the title of this thread were missing the first 2 words, I would say, "They already did."

[malexgreen]

I think Apple should buy COREL's code for wordperfect 11 and it's draw programs. They should then Carbonize it, plug it into iCal, Addressbook, and Mail in the next 6 months to 1 year and call it Apple iOffice. They should sell this at 1/2 the price of MS Office X.

The they should convert this to Coccoa in the next 1-2 years, add some neat features (real time data update from databases, more XML support, better linking with iLife, link to Exchange servers, Applescript, etc, etc.) and call it Apple iOffice 2005, or something like that.

[Arden]

http://www.apple.com/appleworks/

Unlike Microsoft Works, this product actually does.

[malexgreen]

Originally posted by arden
http://www.apple.com/appleworks/

Unlike Microsoft Works, this product actually does.

Appleworks doesn't come close the the functionality in MS OFFICE. Just thinking the shortest path to an Apple office suite could be by buying COREL. COREL would love to license it's IP (they need the $$'s), and Apple wants its own office suite to boot MS off the island, so to speak. I don't think Appleworks is a good candidate in the short term.