Jobs, Pixar Swallow Disney In $7.4B Mega Deal.

What’s next? Microsoft to dump Windows Vista for Ubuntu Linux? We live in the best of times, the worst of times.

For Steve Jobs and companies, it’s the best of times, and deja vu all over again. What’s good for Jobs is good for Apple and the Mac, right?

The particulars of the deal with Disney are strikingly simple, and remarkably similar to Jobs’ takeover of Apple Computer (again) starting in late 1996, and ending with complete control in mid-1997.

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