No other startup has ever been so primed for an Apple acquisition. Everything from execution, design sensibility, culture and even CEO is heavily Apple inspired but in a different but still complementary industry.
Square and Apple seems like a great cultural fit. But I don't think there is a snowball's chance in hell Apple is even mildly interested in acquiring them, as it would make zero business sense to do so. And the feeling is probably mutual.
I don't know about that yet. Mobile payments is a hot category. While some are looking at it from the perspective of using your cell phone to make purchases, square is looking at it in the reverse. It's probably the best positioned POS system ever for the long tail that doesn't have or want a traditional POS terminal. To Apple is could be a resource to entering the iPad as the defacto kiosk to all things touch market.
Yeah, except for the fact that both Jack Dorsey and Keith Rabois are both already horrendously wealthy and almost certainly have no interest in being acquired.
That would be an almost funny turn of events. My neighbor is a recruiter at Square and I'm 100% positive that they try to recruit exclusively out of Apple's hardware teams. These are the people that are looking for their next win and already know their way around the China factories where the Square's are made.
It's an area ripe for disruption. Apple is already a payment processor (iTunes) and has easy to use touchscreen devices (iPad). Seems like a good fit to me.
