http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...ge=1&pagePos=2

Apple and Sony Cell chip alliance predicted
By Jonny Evans


Apple may use the new Cell processor, according to Merrill Lynch.


Analysts from the firm this morning raised their 12-month estimates on
Apple to $102 per share (from $85). They did so because the analysts think
Apple may announce a partnership with Sony, and may begin shipping products
based on the Sony, IBM, Toshiba-developed Cell processor.


CBS MarketWatch reports Merrill's prediction that such a partnership
could be an iTunes-type movie store, a high-performance Apple/Sony video
editing workstation or even a network ready TV.


If it happened, such a move would "put Apple at the heart of the HD
and digital consumer revolution", the analysts said.


Rumours of a strengthened relationship with Sony have been rife since
the surprise appearance of that company's president Kunitake Ando with Apple
CEO Steve Jobs during the latter's Macworld San Francisco keynote speech.


Ostensibly there to help stress Jobs' keynote focus on High Definition
video, Ando raised laughter when he noted that Jobs likes Sony products, but
not all Sony products in a reference to iTunes and Sony Connect.


Apple CEO Steve Jobs is understood to have proposed an alliance with
Sony regarding iTunes - an alliance Sony then spurned.


Apple's Jobs has always expressed respect for Sony as a company.






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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:45:00 -0600, NEXT BOX wrote:

> Apple and Sony Cell chip alliance predicted

What a maroon! ...well two maroons.

--
Keith

NEXT BOX wrote:

> http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...ge=1&pagePos=2
>
> Apple and Sony Cell chip alliance predicted

Ok.

So that explains the price rise in AAPL.

Sony is planning to buy them.



> By Jonny Evans
>
>
> Apple may use the new Cell processor, according to Merrill Lynch.
>
>
> Analysts from the firm this morning raised their 12-month estimates
> on
> Apple to $102 per share (from $85). They did so because the analysts think
> Apple may announce a partnership with Sony, and may begin shipping
> products based on the Sony, IBM, Toshiba-developed Cell processor.
>
>
> CBS MarketWatch reports Merrill's prediction that such a partnership
> could be an iTunes-type movie store, a high-performance Apple/Sony video
> editing workstation or even a network ready TV.
>
>
> If it happened, such a move would "put Apple at the heart of the HD
> and digital consumer revolution", the analysts said.
>
>
> Rumours of a strengthened relationship with Sony have been rife
> since
> the surprise appearance of that company's president Kunitake Ando with
> Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the latter's Macworld San Francisco keynote
> speech.
>
>
> Ostensibly there to help stress Jobs' keynote focus on High
> Definition
> video, Ando raised laughter when he noted that Jobs likes Sony products,
> but not all Sony products in a reference to iTunes and Sony Connect.
>
>
> Apple CEO Steve Jobs is understood to have proposed an alliance with
> Sony regarding iTunes - an alliance Sony then spurned.
>
>
> Apple's Jobs has always expressed respect for Sony as a company.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/news...593-832262873&

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NEXT BOX wrote:
> http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...ge=1&pagePos=2
>
> Apple and Sony Cell chip alliance predicted
> By Jonny Evans
>
>
> Apple may use the new Cell processor, according to Merrill Lynch.

Pretty much the only place where this processor is going to get the time
of day in a PC world.

Yousuf Khan

SELL!!!!



J


"NEXT BOX" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsu6dnWq_B_hlhY_fRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...ge=1&pagePos=2
>
> Apple and Sony Cell chip alliance predicted
> By Jonny Evans
>
>
> Apple may use the new Cell processor, according to Merrill Lynch.
>
>
> Analysts from the firm this morning raised their 12-month estimates
on
> Apple to $102 per share (from $85). They did so because the analysts think
> Apple may announce a partnership with Sony, and may begin shipping
products
> based on the Sony, IBM, Toshiba-developed Cell processor.
>
>
> CBS MarketWatch reports Merrill's prediction that such a partnership
> could be an iTunes-type movie store, a high-performance Apple/Sony video
> editing workstation or even a network ready TV.
>
>
> If it happened, such a move would "put Apple at the heart of the HD
> and digital consumer revolution", the analysts said.
>
>
> Rumours of a strengthened relationship with Sony have been rife
since
> the surprise appearance of that company's president Kunitake Ando with
Apple
> CEO Steve Jobs during the latter's Macworld San Francisco keynote speech.
>
>
> Ostensibly there to help stress Jobs' keynote focus on High
Definition
> video, Ando raised laughter when he noted that Jobs likes Sony products,
but
> not all Sony products in a reference to iTunes and Sony Connect.
>
>
> Apple CEO Steve Jobs is understood to have proposed an alliance with
> Sony regarding iTunes - an alliance Sony then spurned.
>
>
> Apple's Jobs has always expressed respect for Sony as a company.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/news...593-832262873&
>
>
>

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:13:32 -0500, Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>NEXT BOX wrote:
>> http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...ge=1&pagePos=2
>>
>> Apple and Sony Cell chip alliance predicted
>> By Jonny Evans
>>
>>
>> Apple may use the new Cell processor, according to Merrill Lynch.
>
>Pretty much the only place where this processor is going to get the time
>of day in a PC world.
>

Why are you and Keith so sure of yourselves?

If you're saying that Cell isn't going to make a mark in x86 boxes,
that's a tautology...

The fact that Apple already uses Power and Cell is genetically related
to Power? Not particularly important, I think...

The fact that Apple has been making a money in consumer electronics
when everybody else has been treading water and that Cell could
revolutionize consumer electronics... That's what counts.

Time to dredge up the early dismissive comments on PC's. Nothing is
forever.

RM

Robert Myers wrote:

> The fact that Apple has been making a money in consumer electronics
> when everybody else has been treading water and that Cell could
> revolutionize consumer electronics... That's what counts.

Making money, but not at the scale of a real consumer electronics
company....$250million a quarter? c'mon...

>
> Time to dredge up the early dismissive comments on PC's. Nothing is
> forever.
>
> RM

In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Pretty much the only place where this processor is going to get the time
> of day in a PC world.

What, even the PC has Intel, AMD, VIA, and Transmeta. Yes, Intel is the
lion's share of the market...for now.

Doug Jacobs wrote:
> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>Pretty much the only place where this processor is going to get the time
>>of day in a PC world.
>
>
> What, even the PC has Intel, AMD, VIA, and Transmeta. Yes, Intel is the
> lion's share of the market...for now.

All of those processors are x86-compatible, something that the Cell most
definite is not.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:

> Doug Jacobs wrote:
>> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Yousuf Khan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Pretty much the only place where this processor is going to get the time
>>>of day in a PC world.
>>
>>
>> What, even the PC has Intel, AMD, VIA, and Transmeta. Yes, Intel is the
>> lion's share of the market...for now.
>
> All of those processors are x86-compatible, something that the Cell most
> definite is not.
>
> Yousuf Khan

The cell will be as popular as Crusoe...not at all.

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