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Under the current deal, their stake of Hulu is not valued at $27.5 billion. Rather, the agreement is that they would get THEIR SHARE as if ALL OF HULU was valued at $27.5 billion. So their stake (33%) is being valued at effectively $9 billion.

If they can prove Hulu is worth more than that, then they would contractually be entitled to the higher value payout.

I absolutely think $27.5 billion is too low. Hulu should be valued at least $50.0 billion I would think, given how many subscribers they have.

Sure, this I can agree with. I don’t think the Garmin crowd is the type that wants a smartphone on their wrist. They are athletes that want battery life measured in weeks. But yes, I could see this working as an upsell for people that were already in the market for an AW.

I’m not sure who you’re arguing against. This article is implying that Garmin will go bankrupt because of the new AW. My counterpoint is that’s what was said when the AW edition came out, but the Swiss Watchmakers did not go bankrupt, rather they thrived even more.

It’s irrelevant that the current fitness-market AW sells more than Swiss watches combined. Those don’t even compete in the same market, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove by putting them against each other.

One could also argue that the Swiss watchmakers "came out on top" since they are selling more now than they ever have in the history of the Swiss watch market.

It turned out like this: Swiss watch exports have increased pretty much every year since the Apple Watch came out. In 2021, they set an all-time record. Source:

https://www.fhs.swiss/scripts/getstat.php?file=histo_220707_a_regions.pdf

So the question now is, how did YOU think it turned out?

This doesn’t make any sense. Yes, the Apple Watch, a $199 product, sells more units than Swiss watches, but they aren’t taking that market share away from Swiss watchmakers. Swiss watch exports have risen basically every year since the AW launched, and in 2021 just set an all-time record.

Where have I seen this before? Oh, yes:

"will the Apple Watch Edition make Swiss watchmakers the next Nokia?"

Oh, brother. We know how that turned out.

This is absolutely hilarious to watch. Sony is in no position to cry now after spending decades keeping Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and other titles as PS exclusives.

Hope Microsoft stays aggressive and says, sure, we’ll give you one more year of COD if you put your PS exclusives on Game Pass or something.

And before the PS fanboys start grilling me with "bUt COD iS tOo sUcCesSfUl tO Be ExClUsIvE"…does that mean Nintendo should be required to make Mario Kart multi-platform as well? Or that Disney should be required to let other studios use the Marvel IP in their films? In this world, the content owner gets to decide what to do with the content. Just like Sony has been doing, and just like Microsoft will do now.

In before all the "hurr durr FB bad" comments while half of humanity continues to use their products each and every day.

People really underestimate the current state of the world. This is surely a big gamble by FB, but I can see a scenario where this becomes mainstream. FB didn’t get to their status of dominating world social media by not knowing what they are doing.