[geeks] Apple at it again

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:25:15PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Apple buying up companies concerns me for one main reason - it helps
> them hide a significant amount of red ink in the financial
> statements.  Normally, when you see a company going out an snapping
> up bunches of smaller companies, they're trying to hide financial
> losses by playing games with assets and sales figures.  That might
> not be the case here, but it has happened more often than not... 

Yes, but how many of the companies doing it to hide red ink also
manage to turn out market capturing products at the same time.  To
wit. just look at Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, both of which were
aquesitions. 

I still don't get the whole thing about buying both nothing real and
silicon grail.  Why not just one or the other?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd