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Originally Posted by Barnes
You don't know much about this stuff do you? ARM probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for Apple and the Newton. They founded ARM with Acorn.
ARM's market cap is over 3 billion. Why would they buy them when they could just continue licensing ARM's property at a much cheaper cost? If Apple wanted to buy them, they would have to continue to license ARM technology to others in order to get any return on the purchase. It would be impossible to shut out the competition.
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Except now they could double or triple the cost to their competitors if they wanted to. ARM has a virtual monopoly on cell phone processors, and if Apple owned it they could price the iPhone way below anything else on the market. For that reason, I doubt this deal would even be allowed to go through, assuming the rumour is even true.