To those saying a merger of this magnitude can't happen remember Time-Warner and AOL merged in the year 2000 to the tune of 186 billion.
Apple is in competition with Google, and needs to find a way to remain a growth company. Apple may have new inventions in the works, but Disney is a complementary market for them, that has a record of proven growth and foreseeable growth in the future.
These two companies both stand to benefit from if not a merger, then at least a collaboration. Apple will need the media content/library that Disney encompasses. Disney not only needs the tech upgrade(actually they already started doing that as many CM's have an Ipad with them.) but EPCOT has been failing in it's innovation and Imagination, and few corporate sponsors are stepping up to partner with Disney in EPCOT.
There is a history of Hewlett Packard in EPCOT, however recently it seems HP and Apple have been trying to become buddy buddy
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/02/01/hp-pitches-its-latest-apple-friendly-offerings
so maybe HP won't care about being in the same park as Apple.
I had started a thread about this subject some ten months ago, when my Ipad updated its OS and I found a Disney,ESPN,Yahoo, and one more preset favorite tabs I can't recall, in my home screen.
It makes sense to me, the two companies have been mixing back and forth serving on each others boards and buying up each others stock, they do not directly compete with each other but are in complementary markets. They have similar ideals when it comes to issues of imagination and innovation.
Not sure why this is such a far fetched idea, and this idea has apparently been going on for many years now.
The biggest draw back I see to it happening is that Apple holds it's money offshore and would pay a huge tax to buy Disney.