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"They'll be joined by a new Apple-branded display"   -----------> Hooray!

Your Apple % sales graphic is totally misleading ... it suggests that Mac sales are a shrinking portion of a pie.
But, Mac sales have been vastly expanding over the last 5 to 10 years, in absolute terms, so that looking at the proportion of the pie misses the point -- the point is that the Mac in and of itself is a fantastic vibrant business model ... sadly being starved by its own owner.

You really don't want to be using wi-fi for back-up purposes:  all you are doing is needlessly radiating your brain, and turning your home into a potentially unsafe environment, esp if you have kids around. Get an ethernet connection, and do it properly, efficiently and safely.

1. The question is not about Apple 'surviving 2017'. It is about it making crazy decent products - not new colours on iPhones or announcing deals with ageing music industry 'nobodies'.  

2. What you call concentrating on popular products (i.e. the iPhone), ... I call losing the plot, losing your mojo, losing your purpose, and forgetting who and what you are, and who your customers are. This starts with the disdain for the Mac itself, the disdain for the MacOS, the disdain for the very creative types and professionals that actually do stuff that Steve Jobs appealed to when he returned to Apple - when he returned to the core - the disdain for the Mac Pro, and the complete disdain for the desktop customer base by failing to even offer a single monitor, and the sell-out that is the Lucky Gadget shemozzle which is a real embarrassment. More and more dumbing down.

3. As for Hypercard ... that is and was one of the coolest software projects Apple has ever done ... and it still lives on (as SuperCard) despite Apple's failure to develop it. I wish
they resurrected it in an object-oriented form. 

Look at all those ugly cables hanging out the back of it ... completely missing the point of a single cable that does everything ... and half-way up the monitor too. I put more thought into packing my lunch.