Apple May End Up Acquiring Perplexity Like It Did With Beats In 2014, Says Dan Ives—Consumers Need 'Reasons To Upgrade' As iPhone Maker Falls 'Way Behind' In AI Race

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Apple May End Up Acquiring Perplexity Like It Did With Beats In 2014, Says Dan Ives—Consumers Need 'Reasons To Upgrade' As iPhone Maker Falls 'Way Behind' In AI Race

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Following Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) WWDC 2025, Dan Ives, global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, said the tech giant ‘might be forced’ to pursue a merger or acquisition with an AI platform like Perplexity, or one of several others—similar to its 2014 acquisition of…

This story appeared on benzinga.com, 2025-06-12 09:09:09.