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apple ][ saidI'm sure glad that Jobs and Wozniak were American, because had they been born European and attempted to create the company over there, then I do not think that any of us would be reading this forum today, or using the devices that we do, because Apple would not exist.

I find it hard to agree with you. I wonder how Jobs and Wozniak would do in the States nowadays. Jobs, the son of a criminal Syrien refugee, Wozniak with clear Eastern European roots. They probably wouldn’t even be allowed to drive an Uber car.

Well, there are a few points worth mentioning. The watch could have been linked to the phone outside the embassy with personal hotspot (WiFi) on. Still not a strong connection but much stronger than Bluetooth. If the Turkish government is claiming to have audio recordings of the atrocity that is likely going to be the case. It would be too obvious and embarrassing if recording would not actually exist. The existence is easy to proof to foreign intelligent services and recordings are next to impossible to fake. So why come up with an audio recording if you don't have one? But the main issue here is the motive of the killers. If Saudi Arabia would have wanted to get rid of Khashoggi it would have had endless opportunities to do so discreetly. But that's not the point. The point is to kill a known critic of the regime as a openly as possible. (Similar to the Russian attack on Skripal in England with ultra reare Novitschok poison.) It sends two messages: 1) You signal all your potential critics and dissidents that they are not save from you and that you are willing to kill them anytime, anywhere and at any cost. 2) You show the world how immensely powerful you are. The more obvious Russia got away with Skripal, and Putin personally made sure Russia aroused as much suspicion as possible, the more it shows the power of the regime. If the Saudi prince can have Khashoggi killed in Turkey in an Embassy in full view of the world and no country really reacts, than he has gained the absolution to commit any atrocity he wants. He becomes the ultimate ruler. If the west let's him get away with this, we (and of course the Saudi population and the Arab world) will have to pay a high price for decades to come. So, to come back to the recordings, to the Saudi regime potential recordings aren't necessarily a problem. In the opposite, if recordings prove the involvement of the regime and the Saudi prince and he still gets away with it, all the better for him. That's as fu***d as politics sometimes goes. Usually the politics of dictatorships and regimes, but Europe and the US are currently at a high risk of playing along.