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Apple Disrupts Yet Another Industry

By Andrew Tonner | More Articles
January 28, 2012 | Comments (1)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which technology editor/analyst Andrew Tonner and industrials editor/analyst Brendan Byrnes discuss topics around the investing world.

Apple, one of the most preeminent companies in tech, recently announced its plans to disrupt yet another industry -- textbooks. The company recently unveiled its plans at a press event in New York. We've seen Apple rewrite the rules of an entire industry before. It's now-ubiquitous iTunes rewrote the way the music industry functioned. But can Apple pull a similar move another time? In this video, Andrew discusses the move, as well as what investors should make of it.

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  • Report this Comment On January 28, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Azloty wrote:

    A good report, but it's missing something very big! Something very, very, very big! Something so big that the whole report would be turned on it's head! And because you've already spent your time reading this, I will reveal this missing thing now. The current lawsuit between Intel and FTC, and subsequently the lawsuit between Intel and Nvidia! If Intel wins, Nvidia will be forced out of the market because the GPU (Nvidia) will be integrated into the CPU and Intel would own the technology to boot! Then the entire report could be re-said about Intel. Add to that, the fact that Apple, the only growing pc manufacturer, makes their own SOC (system on a chip) are forced to bypass both. Nvidia could also be a future RIM. Even though their GPU's are currently better. On the other hand, if Nvidia wins... Yeah, the report would be spot on... The the court cases will take a year. In the mean time, buy Apple. Because they are the only ones poised to advance and not miss a beat while the other manufactures have to wait and see, and then be stuck with less optimization to boot. Apple also has the PPC licenses (from PA Semi aquisition) and back log of PPC code, which could enable IBM's power-saving RaceTrack technology. So apple is poised to pass both companies in that space.

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