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Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - space-time - 05-08-2014
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/05/08/report-apple-to-acquire-beats/8868913/
If consummated, Apple's purchase of Beats could represent the company's largest acquisition ever.
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Should the acquisition go through, it would be ironic in a way. Dre and Iovine came up with the idea for Beats by lamenting the decline in sound quality ushered in by Apple's own iPod and the MP3 era.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - sekker - 05-09-2014
You Beat me to this posting!
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - eustacetilley - 05-09-2014
sekker wrote:
You Beat me to this posting!
Actually...
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1717521
Eustace
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - jdc - 05-09-2014
Is it bad (or wrong?) that I only associate beats with thugs and hoodlums?
edit: the photo gizmodo used:
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - Lew Zealand - 05-09-2014
jdc wrote:
Is it bad (or wrong?) that I only associate beats with thugs and hoodlums?
Yes. You should in fact associate it with poor quality audio reproduction.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - N-OS X-tasy! - 05-09-2014
sekker wrote:
You Beats me to this posting!
Fixed.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - Carm - 05-09-2014
Poor quality overpriced garbage.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - Fritz - 05-09-2014
the lousiest sounding cans I've ever heard.
I hope apple doesn't eat the hype.
be better off in co-design with Senn.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - Carm - 05-09-2014
http://recode.net/2014/05/08/why-apple-is-betting-big-on-beats-hardware-for-now-streaming-for-later/ suggests Apple purchased it for the Beats subscription service.
Re: Reports: Apple set to acquire headphone maker Beats - deckeda - 05-09-2014
With Jimmy Iovine's vast industry connections (and his power) I suppose the service had attractive agreements with more artists than some other services?
Other than that, I can't imagine why anyone would want to sell Beats headphones. They pretty much suck, although they will forever be justifiably known for spearheading the "better headphone" resurgence that's taken the audio world by storm the last few years.