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APPLE dominance - Food For Thought

posted on Aug 14, 2013 11:54AM

Imagine this senario :-

Apple has approx $146B in cash and cash reserves.

Apple shareholders want Apple to do something of value with this cash.

Apple recently announced the share buy-back program to appease shareholders "somewhat".

Apple also recently announced interest in establishing their own chip manufacturing / supply chain capability. A good move as currently Apple buy chips from Samsung for the iPhones and iPads (love hate relationship if I every saw one). Intel currently provide chips for Apple PC's.

Apple could buy POET outright for a couple of Billion and what would that mean ....

Dominance of the smartphone market

Dominance of the desktop / laptop market

Dominance of the the tablet market

Dominance of future product pipeline verticals (Televisions etc)

And they would be able to license out POET to the other non-compete verticals.

Now that would represent a massive value proposition for Apple shareholders and in turn POET shareholders.

A couple of Billion to Apple wouldn't even put a small dent in their cash reserves.