If Disney gets control over Pixar's content, it will be all over for this golden goose. If there's one thing we have learned by watching both Pixar and Apple, is that once you get the creative control out of the creator's hands and into the bean counters and marketing drones hands, the true creation ceases to exist.

Pixar should buy Disney instead.

If Disney buys Pixar, they will ruin it. Everything will be a crappy sequal direct to video. Disney use to be great, but lately they just suck!

Steve is too much a lone wolf to go to Disney. It would tempt him as a big opportunity, but at the end of the day, I'm sure he'll realize that he can do more good and have more fame just building upon what he's got now. Disney just isn't a cool company and probably never will be again.

It is well known fact that Steve Jobs would love, and is working towards being the next Disney. He is know to want to be the next Disney, but bigger and better. It is all in the book "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs" I could see this deal happening if Steve somehow gets some kind of role in Disney. If history is any indicator if he gets any top level position at Disney he is a master at making people believe he is the man to be running the company. Just look what happened when he came back to Apple to be an advisor, didn't take long before he went from advisor to i-CEO to CEO. He would love nothing more than to be CEO of Disney.

Jobs wants to be CEO of companies he helped make great. I don't think he wants to play SOS for a company that his name will never shine through the glory of Walt's.

Pixar won't sell while Steve is at the helm.

He may see this as a means to an end that he can make his own. Jobs didn't create Pixar he bought it. Disney is a struggling company in the midst of bad management.. a perfect opportunity for someone like Steve Jobs, and he knows it.

He can help make Disney Great again!!

The problem with Disney is the same problem that Apple had when they were going through problems. Nobody makes any clear cut decisions since nobody wants their name on any failures. There is no focus, no means to get to the promised land.

What they need is someone that can lay down a map and start creating innovative products that people would crave for.

Not that I would want Jobs to do this, but does that sound like anyone you heard of????

For all the times you've heard about Steve Jobs micro-managing projects at Apple, do you really think he's the right guy to run Dinsey? Disney is far too large and diverse of a company for someone with his management style (er, temperment) to deal with effectively. Sure, Disney could use someone like him to help re-energize the part of the creative engine; but run the whole show? No way! And nobody would want him working for them either!

Why does this rumor keep cropping up every few years?

Disney is a HUGE company. Disney owns ESPN and ABC. They operate theme parks. They produce broadway shows. They run a cruise line. They operate a vacation club (time share real estate thingy).

The characters in Disney's animation may be the base for a lot of this, but the actual production of anmiation is such a small part of what Disney does.

Why would Jobs even remotely be interested in running this kind of company? More to the point, who would think that he was even remotely qualified? Jobs is very good at what he does, but nothing he has ever dine at Apple or Pixar would prepare him for heading Disney.

But, who knows. Maybe it will happen. I am just personally sceptical.