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I am at a loss to understand how a supposition can be termed "breaking news".

I know that Hacker News seems to be subtitled "Apple News" these days but could we stick to things that are actually news?

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If this goes through you can expect some pretty heavy shockwaves through the gadget market. Almost everybody using the ARM in a gadget right now is in some way or other in competition with apple.

Imagine your 400# gorilla competitor suddenly gaining control over a critical resource for your product.

I'd be worried.

The connection to non-Apple word is quite obvious - ARM is _very_ popular architecture, used by many, many semiconductor producers (Atmel, Samsung etc.)

Neither your reply nor jacquesm's address OP's actual comment - as important as the supposition may be, that doesn't make it "breaking news".

True, it could lose the 'breaking news', if it wasn't news it shouldn't be here in the first place, the title has clearly been modified, the original is "Is apple targeting ARM for takeover bid?"

There's something to it judging by the stock market though, 5 million shares do not change hands just like that, so I would consider it 'news' and worth reading.

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