What if Apple acquired The Walt Disney Company?

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“Analysts at RBC Capital Markets conducted a study to find out whether the acquisition of The Walt Disney Company by Apple Inc. could be real,” Plugged In wrote. The amount of the proposed deal could be at least $200-$275 billion.
"The resulting company will be huge, and its financial capabilities will make it possible to revolutionize services, as well as the production of devices and content. If something can scare both Silicon Valley and Hollywood, then this is exactly such a combination," the experts explained.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic when the closure of Disney parks made The Walt Disney Company lost $1.4 billion and another $2.8 billion of revenue in November, and the company laid off 32,000 employees until March 2021, it could be possible that Apple would have the best chance to acquire the House of Mouse. (Even though Steve Jobs died of cancer at the age of 56 on October 5, 2011.)
But what if the acquisition of The Walt Disney Company by Apple happened to be very true?
If Apple buys Disney, here’s what the changes would be like in the future.
== List of changes ==
* Apple would buy The Walt Disney Company for $275 billion on January 9, 2023.
* Apple would reduce the dependence of its business on iPhone sales, accounting more than 60% of all incomes.
* Apple would be driving the development of services. With the slowdown in the smartphone market, Apple developing other directions and various services (including Apple Music) would be very important for the company. Disney, with its huge library of content and subscription media channels, would come in handy.
* AppleTV+ would merge with Disney+ and end their deal with Peanuts, meaning that HBO Max would make a new deal with the latter.
* Apple would be able to compete with Netflix and Amazon. By combining technological expertise with a library of content and experience in its production, the company could become a notable player in the streaming market. RBC wrote: “None of the players individually entered this market, possibly due to high competition. At the same time, the combined company would have a ready-made video distribution tool (via devices sold by Apple and the iTunes store), as well as a huge library of ready-made content and the capacity to produce films and TV shows.”
* Disney shareholders Apple would direct financial benefits. If acquired by Disney, earnings per share would rise up to 18%.
* The deal would be completed on November 20, 2023.
* The pre-2023 Disney library would now be owned by Apple.
* Disney's film and television units would include the Apple byline on its logos.
*20th Century Animation would be reshaped into a full-fledged major animation studio managed by Chris Wedge (co-president), Carlos Saldanha (CEO), and Seth MacFarlane (CCO), and would move its headquarters to Glendale, California (replacing DisneyToon Studios), with the Century City studio remaining as an additional office.
* Disney would acquire Reel FX Animation and would be rebranded as Spotlight Digital Images (SDI), becoming a computer animation unit of 20th Century Animation.
*SDI would provide animation for 20th Century Animation’s upcoming computer-animated feature films.
*As a result of the closure of Blue Sky Studios, many of its employees would be transferred to 20th Century Animation, while others went to work for SDI.
*Blue Sky Studios would later be absorbed into 20th Century Animation as an in-name-only unit. After the studio's absorption, 20th Century would produce new content based on Blue Sky’s legacy properties including Ice Age, Robots and Rio.
* Jennifer Lee would finally bring 2D traditional animation back to the millennium age of American animation again, in which Walt Disney Animation Studios would return to produce hand-drawn animated films, while Pixar Animation Studios and 20th Century Animation would continue producing computer-animated films.
== Gallery ==
=== Print logos ===
Deekn07-8f782e64-bb62-4847-ac1b-7bfec58a23f9.png|Walt Disney Pictures print logo (since 2023)
Deekn4t-67ac9c69-7a61-46da-b14e-55fe13b5c7e4.png|Walt Disney Pictures horizontal print logo (since 2023)
Deekn9k-50a88b56-c0c4-475b-ad63-1293c14cf621.png|Pixar Animation Studios print logo (since 2023)
Deeknf4-2fc52a69-8471-4c29-8564-f1c5f980d23b.png|Marvel Studios print logo (since 2023)
Lucasfilm 2015 logo with apple byline by alexdwylie6745 deeknid-fullview.png|Lucasfilm Ltd. print logo (since 2023)
Deeknm0-389d29e9-8a83-4d2b-bb03-25a311c17d5b.png|20th Century Studios print logo (since 2023)
Searchlight pictures 2020 logo with apple byline by alexdwylie6745 deeknnp-fullview.png|Searchlight Pictures print logo (since 2023)
=== On-screen logos ===
Disney 2006 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|Walt Disney Pictures on-screen logo (since 2023)
Pixar 1995 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|Pixar Animation Studios on-screen logo (since 2023)
Marvel Studios 2016 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|Marvel Studios on-screen logo (since 2023)
Lucasfilm Ltd. 2015 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|Lucasfilm Ltd. on-screen logo (since 2023)
20th Century Studios 2020 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|20th Century Studios on-screen logo (since 2023)
20th Century Animation 2020 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|20th Century Animation on-screen logo (since 2023)
Searchlight Pictures 2020 on-screen logo with Apple byline.png|Searchlight Pictures on-screen logo (since 2023)
== Trivia ==
* Despite these changes, Apple would still be one of the biggest major technologies in media industry, since it would still own film studios (Walt Disney Pictures and 20th Century Studios) and broadcast networks (ABC and FX), as well as several major cable channels (such as ESPN, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior and Freeform) and several theme parks (Disney Parks).
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