Why Apple and Sony would never merge

If you read about Bloomberg’s article how an Apple-Sony merger how it makes a lot of sense. Personally, I disagree with this article and think that this would never happen in a million years. Bloomberg wrote, “Sony, the inventor of the Walkman, ceded its leadership in portable music players to Apple’s iPod and continues to lose ground.” 9to5Mac points out that Apple couldn’t buy Sony which values at over 45 billion, about the same price as Yahoo!, which also makes this impossible.

“Sony needs to restore the “cool factor” it once had and Apple now owns. Apple needs Sony’s content — movies, music” Apple may need the content from Sony and Sony may want to be “cool”, but they both don’t want to share these marketing tactics and resources. Also, if they did merge with Sony, Apple would lose all of the content it currently is providing.

“…an iCamera, anyone? Or an iPhone equipped with one of Sony’s high-definition camcorders? And don’t forget Sony’s impressive stable of patents.” Sony doesn’t own complete market share of anything that an average person would know. Sure, they might have a large portion of the high-budget film production industry, but that isn’t a business Apple is in. Apple made its first digital camera, the Quicktake 100 and have done nothing since in the same market.

Everyone has the right to have an opinion and I respect that. My opinion is that this would never happen in a thousand years, but then again… we never know, Apple is so secretive.

Via [9to5Mac]