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Why Apple might actually buy Disney after all
The close corporate ties between Disney and Apple have created all sorts of speculation over the years that the two companies might end up being one company. Steve Jobs sat on the Disney board, and Disney CEO Bob Iger sat on Apple’s. In his memoir, Iger even suggested that had Jobs lived, the two companies might have combined.
I always considered that speculation ridiculous. But these are different times, and Disney and Apple are very different companies than they were a couple of decades ago. Which is why, when The Hollywood Reporter took the possibility of an Apple purchase of Disney seriously, I realized that the speculation I used to roll my eyes at when I was the editor of Macworld now seems… not that implausible, actually.