Why Apple should buy Adobe
Quick - which Silicon Valley icon creates the computers that creative professionals love? And what SV company creates the software that creative professionals crave?
Right: Apple and Adobe. So why are they 2 separate companies? There’s no good reason, especially now that Adobe’s management can’t figure out how to grow the company. Apple, with over $30 billion in cash, could buy Adobe outright, whose market cap is about $18 billion. A cash and stock offer would also make Adobe shareholders happy.
Apple prefers small, bite size acquisitions. But Apple is a big company: their market cap is 10x Adobe’s. Integration wouldn’t be hard: the 2 company’s headquarters are a 15 minute drive down I-280. Steve could oversee both. A quicker drive than to Pixar up in E-ville.
