Didn't Apple start its own investment company a year or two ago? Or maybe a separate entity to invest its cash? I seem to remember something along those lines...

And a pair of 30" Cinema Displays. I'm not sure what they'll do with the rest of the loot, but that sounds like a good start to me. Steve, are you listening?

I wish Apple would buy Thursby and finally integrate its superior networking into Mac OS.

I don't think Emagic were a video effects company, actually.

Hi,

Just a small correction : Emagic was not a video effects company.
It was the maker of Logic, the sequencer that is now Logic Studio.

If they need help spending the dough I sure could use some help paying off my student loans.

I believe they're gonna hold on to it to buy their way out of law suits. Seems every week a new patent case pops up. When you've got that many billions, you have the luxury of saying, "OK, so the lawyers failed, never mind ... make 'em an offer they can't resist."

The video effect company Apple bought was Nothing Real, makers of Shake.

Apple should buy Adobe.

The best way to guarantee the survival of the Mac platform and OS 10 revenue is to create a solid deterrent to Microsoft's possible threat to stop producing Office for Mac.

"You're going to stop offering Office on the Mac platform? Fine. We'll stop offering Photoshop and Dreamweaver on the PC Platform."

Owning Adobe would allow Apple to say this, effectively neutralizing the potential death threat that Microsoft now holds over Apple's head with regard to the Mac platform.

I can't think of a better way to secure the Mac's future against the MS threat that'll always be there unless and until Apple has the ability to counter with a similar threat of their own to aim at the PC platform.

How much could Adobe cost? Surely, with $15B+ in the bank, Apple can afford it ... and wouldn't it be a good investment, anyway?