Comments on: iDisney, Pixaires, and the iTunes Planet http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Om Malik on Broadband : » iDisney: Jobs With Mouse Ears http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113547 Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:20:41 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113547 [...] Steve Jobs is one hell of a negotiator it seems. A week ago the news of Disney buying Pixar broke and the price tag was around $6.7 billion. Apparently not. The deal has closed at $7.4 billion. That works out to over $100 million a day in prolonged negotiations. I guess now Disney people know how Apple employees feel. Paul La Monica reports that the deal is getting thumbs up from Wall Street. Michael Cuggino, a fund manager who owns about 100,000 shares of Disney in the Permanent Portfolio and Permanent Portfolio Aggressive Growth funds … says that the… the addition of Jobs, who will also become Disney’s largest individual shareholder, to Disney’s board could mean that more innovative digital deals could be in the works. “Jobs is a dynamic personality who knows consumer electronics. It’s an opportunity to bring some youthful energetic thinking to Disney’s board.” [...]

]]> By: khabri http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113546 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:15:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113546 Perhaps, it could help Apple stop the Microsoft and its DRM plan, which for now Hollywood likes. And no mention of Google’s DRM :( Agreed Google’s DRM is in pretty bad shape today but their engineers should beat the evil by the end of this year.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113545 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:28:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113545 oh i totally mean microsoft drm to be replaced by apple drm. of course ;-)

]]> By: Jacob Varghese http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113544 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:13:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113544 This would make SJ the largest shareholder, but not a majority shareholder in Disney. He would need over 50% for that.

]]> By: B http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113543 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:38:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113543 Mmmh — are you sure the maker of iTunes will fight DRM? Or do you mean “replace Microsoft plans by its onw”?

Regarding Jobs and the Disney competitors, they will be happy to go through interresting distribution deals, especially if he remains the only worthy alternative to piracy. Partnerships already exist when producing movies; I don’t think they will bother as much as they seemed to care about deciding the retail price.

]]> By: Joe http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113542 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:22:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113542 What do other major content producers say when the largest shareholder of one of their largest competitors comes knoking on their door form more content for his ‘other’ company?

]]> By: hyperrealityman http://gigaom.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113541 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:12:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/idisney-pixaires-and-the-itunes-planet/#comment-113541 OT something new Viseon & Sipphone
something changed at viseon.com
GBOX??????????????????????????????

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