Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

  • thelastknowngod
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    452 years ago

    Not an apple fan really at all but buying that chip design company way back when seems to have been the right move. The M1 chip in my mbp is fantastic.

    • @GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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      292 years ago

      Even before that, Apple owes its very existence to an acquisition. Acquiring Next allowed them to abandon their dying OS and start anew with OS X, and brought back in founder Steve Jobs (who Apple had previously fired). With Steve Jobs at the helm, they made the computers cool again to buy some time before the iPod completely turned the company around.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      82 years ago

      It has some dumb problems though. Lack of dual monitor support and virtualization issues are painful for my users.