Apple looking to buy Beats Audio for 3.2 billion

[Mook]

Wut?

Report: Apple Is Getting Ready to Buy Beats for $3.2 Billion

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[Bob Kazamakis]

Why

 

[bikrboy128]

Sounds like a waste. Good job apple :retard:

 

[Stink Star]

Apparently they want to use their music streaming catalog and rights...... But 3.2B???? That's kinda damn pricey

 

[radioguy6]

fuck AAPL

 

[Shibby50]

Dr Dre the genius

 

[b00sted]

That seems like the cool thing for companies to do these days. Who can make the most expensive acquisition? Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc.

 

[Fast99Snake]

it's all marketing to the lower income segment, Beats headphones are crap, you can buy a nice nice set of Bose or better for not much more, but that doesn't appeal to the younger generation.

AAPL is just sitting on too much cash in an environment where they earn zero return, gotta put it to use somewhere I guess so this is how bubbles and malinvestment happen.

 

[VenomInside]

Lame. But dre is no dummy. He's laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[wombat]

I personally think beats sound great, if you buy the $400 pair and not the $100/$200 pair. Also, the technology that has gone into laptops and phones has made the audio on those sound amazing compared to what they used to be. Apple could easily improve their products with better sound coming out of their pcs.

 

[budsang1]

I personally think beats sound great, if you buy the $400 pair and not the $100/$200 pair. Also, the technology that has gone into laptops and phones has made the audio on those sound amazing compared to what they used to be. Apple could easily improve their products with better sound coming out of their pcs.

I agree, when I started flying for work a lot I got some beats executives and they are amazing. $300 but amazing

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Meanwhile my Sennheiser 555's from 2004 still sound better than this overpriced garbage.

 

[radioguy6]

in before AAPL changes the industry standard 1/4 inch and 3.5mm jacks to apple proprietary on corded headphones, because Apple.

 

[sickmint79]

quality vs. marketing i'm under the impression beats ain't bad but is more of the latter

3.2 b guess we have some more players in the silly prices for acquisitions game, why should facebook have all the fun?

 

[cacicgtp7]

Beats headphones aren't bad by any means but they sure as hell aren't a benchmark of anything.

There are MUCH better buys if you're actually into the sound being produced for less than 300 dollars or the same. Half of what you're paying for in the Beats is the name "Beats." Plus they over inflate the shit out of the lower EQ range at around 100/120 hz. That's why people in their late teen's and early 20's love them. They "thump."


I will say as a company they are killing it though. They've partnered with quite a few large companies on so many different platforms from personal audio, to computers, to car audio. They're going to be the next "bose," but not as expensive haha.

 

[Mook]

 

[importcrew]

I would rather buy the Chinese knockoff (sometimes using the same exact materials and looking the same) than to go to best buy and buy a pair of the "authentic" pairs.

 

[hj16]

So a company that specializing in overpriced, underperfoming electronics is looking at acquiring a company that specializes in overpriced, underperforming electronics.

If you want audiophile quality headphones, look at offerings from Grado Labs, Audio Technica, Sennheiser, or Shure.

 

[Rebel]

I personally think beats sound great, if you buy the $400 pair and not the $100/$200 pair. Also, the technology that has gone into laptops and phones has made the audio on those sound amazing compared to what they used to be. Apple could easily improve their products with better sound coming out of their pcs.

I'm not a huge music guy but at the same time I don't want to spend $400 to get good sounding headphones.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I'm not a huge music guy but at the same time I don't want to spend $400 to get good sounding headphones.

Buy a set of Sennheiser 555s and take the foam grate off the inside of the speaker and you now have a $200 Sennheiser 595 for $100.

As above, I've had my 555s for a decade and they are still hands down the best circum-aural headphones I've ever used. Including $250 Astro gaming headphones.

 

[Breze84]

No fucks given...

 

[Rebel]

Buy a set of Sennheiser 555s and take the foam grate off the inside of the speaker and you now have a $200 Sennheiser 595 for $100.

As above, I've had my 555s for a decade and they are still hands down the best circum-aural headphones I've ever used. Including $250 Astro gaming headphones.

Thanks, but I was more commenting on wombats' claim that you had to purchase the $400 beats headphones to get good sounding audio as opposed to their 100/200 sets.

Personally I'm going to stick with my skull candy buds.

 

[guspech750]

My Polk Audio headphones sound great, quality construction and do not look ghetto.

 

[Mook]

 

[wombat]