Gallery: 10 Companies Apple Could Acquire Instead of Buying Back All That Stock
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Tesla: No company has done more to push innovation in the century-old horseless carriage category. One word: iCar.
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Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston. *Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED*
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Uber: Uber is already a transportation network built on top of an iPhone platform. Apple seems like a top candidate to help it build a mobile logistics network for the modern world.
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Square: Apple badly wants to stake a claim in payments. Square's Apple-centric design philosophy would make it a great fit.
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Jawbone: Jawbone, designer of the Jambox wireless speaker and the Up fitness band, shares Apple's affinity for friendly minimalism.
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GoPro: GoPro pioneered the category of affordable high-def anywhere. Apple could launch an iPhone-GoPro hybrid in a matter of months.
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SpaceX: Imagine the marketing coup of a rocket launching into space with the Apple logo plastered on its side.
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FedEx: Apple is already the way the world moves bits. With FedEx, it could also be the way it moves atoms.
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Target: The combined forces of Apple's digital skill and Target's retail acumen could create a potential Amazon killer.
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Luxembourg: Everything in this new Apple nation-state would "just work." Just don't ever try to fix anything yourself.
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