What IF........

[Taswell]

Theroretically

 

What IF.....Apple Goes bankrupt? Does google or Microsoft try harder to buy them out? Maybe even Nvidia would try but I don't think they would win the bidding war if it came down to that.

[Arty]

the first almost trillion dollar company goes bankrupt?

how the hell LoL

Personally, i would take thier patents and let them die.

[minibois]

It wouldn't happen, but I will take your if.

if that would happen other companies, like Nvidia and Microsoft and stuff, would take some of the patents and some other company would take over the Apple branding, because it is still a widely recognized brand.

People still see the Apple logo as quality (I don't agree with that, but hey.. That's my opinion)

[Volbet]

It was close to happining once: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-took-apple-from-near-bankruptcy-to-billions-in-13-years-2011-1?op=1&IR=T

If Apple went bust, a varity of companies would probably be intersted in buying their patents. 

The most intersted company would probably be Microsoft, since they kinda need Apple to avoid another monopoly case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

I don't know if they would help bail Apple out again, but it would be intersting to see what Micorsoft would do.

[pinksnowmanshandle]

I'd try to save them (atm their phones look pretty good (only issue is the lackluster OS, Durability and Specs), though I doubt such a thing would ever happen. It would be either Microsoft of Google who would be more likely to go bankrupt (even though they're still multi-billion dollar companies).

[ForsakenLive]

If that was even possible, they would get absorbed by someone else quickly enough, or if there isn't enough cash, it's going to get absorbed by parts, with most of the employees on it, it's a very profitable company, no need to let them die.

[Peepnbrick]

I don't think that Microsoft would be there to give them a financial boost again because a part of them probably regrets that decision, and there are other contenders in the market now (Like chrome OS), though none quite as big as OSX.

 

I also do not think that people would be rushing to buy the company, because if they were to go bankrupt it would be because they were making bad products that nobody wanted to buy. This trend would continue for 17 billion years until Apple no longer had the money to support themselves, at which point the public would not care if Apple disappeared, because gone would be the days of their "unapologetically plastic" innovation values.

[Briggsy]

Apple unlikely will ever go bankrupt per say, but then again most of Apples wealth isn't in cash. Most of Apple's profit either gets invested back into the company, or the money ends up in an investors piggy bank. If you look back in time at a company like Sony for example, no one would have ever thought they would reach a point where they would be hurting financially. Sony is still worth Billions upon Billions, but their proprietary, walled garden, high-priced business model doesn't sit well with the average consumer these days, and it has cost them. Apple could share the same fate as well, especially with Jobs gone, and long term goals for Apple being decentralized. 

[IndaLight]

Phh click bate 

[via]

the amount of shareholders that apple has basically guarantees their success.

[Ertman]

I think another company should/would by them. They will probably buy them for their patents and use their trademarks on some products. If they fell from where they are to backruptcy, nothing else they have would be worth having.

[Mightyinvader]

Before apple goes bankrupt they'd just Buy the US.... They literally are worth more than the us. So if apple goes bankrupt, then the US would already have gone bankrupt meaning all of those companies would have gone bankrupt and the world we be coming to a economic apocolypse. This is pretty much impossible, unless they bet their entire funds on the canucks winning the cup(im from vancouver, I can say that)