Apple Seals Beats Deal, Lays Off 200

[scolaner]

Apple finalizes its $3 billion deal to acquire Beats Music and Beats Electronics.

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[Derza10]

2.6 billion + 400,000 != 3 billion.. Unless of course you meant another 400 million in stocks?

 

[scolaner]

Yep, good catch on the typo, thanks--

 

[pills161]

An overpriced headset to go with an overpriced phone, no thanks. I see handfulls of douchewads at the gym all the time wearing the Beats headphones and all I can think is that they are gullible chumps.

 

[shafe88]

So does this mean no more beats audio for HP.

 

[southernshark]

An overpriced headset to go with an overpriced phone, no thanks. I see handfulls of douchewads at the gym all the time wearing the Beats headphones and all I can think is that they are gullible chumps.

They may be wearing illegal copies from China bought for a fraction of the price. I bought a pair when I was over there.

 

[Ragnar-Kon]

Never understood the Beats fad. Nor do I understand how Beats fits into Apple's grand scheme.

Guess we'll find out shortly.

 

[cmi86]

Sweet over priced gimmick marketing audio to go with over priced gimmick marketing phone/computers/tabs. Mass produced for the sheeple of the world.

 

[xpeh]

Welcome to the placebo

 

[Alpha3031]

Another reason not to buy beats 😛. Or apple.

 

[robochump]

Apple has allowed the 200 employees affected by acquisition to find other positions so this article is out dated.

 

[WRXSTIGuy]

Ahhhh Branding... People will pay $300 for a pair of headphones that sound worse than a $70 pair just to look cool.