Last week I found out that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), will buy Beats Audio, its co-founders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine becoming managers of those from Cupertino from this summer. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), will spend 3.2 billion dollars to buy Beats and although it was said that the purchase will be completed during this week, it seems that everything will be postponed for next week, probably because Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
More time for people to speculate about what it all means: Apple's planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction. That's a longer timetable than some people expected as recently as a few days ago.
Finding out that Apple will acquire Beats generated a multitude of speculations regarding the company's intentions, a good measure of criticism appearing to address the intentions of those from Cupertino. For now, no one knows why Apple chose to buy this company, but from premium headphones to its audio streaming service, there are as many speculations as there are analysts.
Regardless of what Apple chooses to do after this acquisition, it is clear that in the future we will have products developed using Beats technologies and the expertise of its engineers, it remains to be seen exactly what.
