Analyst: Apple and Sony, best friends forever?

Yeah well, my best friend who doesn't know it yet
Cringely and I have been
raving about this for weeks now, but some Merrill Lynch analyst has said it now so maybe it will take off: Steven Milunovich has the peculiar notion that Apple and Sony could be working together on an "iTunes-like iMovies Store." Yeah, what he said.

Milunovich has a couple of other ideas about what the "intriguing" appearance of Sony President Kunitake Ando at the Macworld SF keynote might mean: a high-performance workstation using the
Cell processor, or a "network-centric TV with computing for handling the next-generation of entertainment feeds." Uh, some might call that a
home media center. And some others who haven't been living under rocks might note that everybody and their third cousins once-removed have been talking about this since,
oh, about January 11. But thanks for the idea! ;)