I'm sure the timing is coincidence and has nothing to do with Disney controlling the largest market share of streaming services.
Nearly every acquisition is about extinguishing competition and squeezing more juice from your core products. It's why oil and gas buys green tech to toss it in the bin, it's why Google buys waze and essentially halts development on it, it's why Microsoft bought blizzard. They extract any value from what they bought but that is secondary to eliminating a company that they'd have to compete with on price.
Every coy news article that pretends there's some sort of 3d chess going on or some big unknowable synergies is a joke. They'll give the acquired divisions to some much more competent middle managers to see if there's any value to extract, but it's secondary to the main objective. Disney would much rather collaborate with n-1 competitors (Netflix is really it?)
Reading this made me wonder if anyone working the holocaust trains had any moments of reflection as they carted people to slaughter. Maybe some of them could feign ignorance, unlike the "Texas Division of Emergency Management" Officials
Utterly disgusting that people are going along with this farce.
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By acquiring fox they have 60% ownership interest in Hulu. It's that simple.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/hulu-and-disney-subscriptions-are-going-up-heres-how-much/
I'm sure the timing is coincidence and has nothing to do with Disney controlling the largest market share of streaming services.
Nearly every acquisition is about extinguishing competition and squeezing more juice from your core products. It's why oil and gas buys green tech to toss it in the bin, it's why Google buys waze and essentially halts development on it, it's why Microsoft bought blizzard. They extract any value from what they bought but that is secondary to eliminating a company that they'd have to compete with on price.
https://dealroom.net/blog/biggest-m-a-deals-2022
Every coy news article that pretends there's some sort of 3d chess going on or some big unknowable synergies is a joke. They'll give the acquired divisions to some much more competent middle managers to see if there's any value to extract, but it's secondary to the main objective. Disney would much rather collaborate with n-1 competitors (Netflix is really it?)