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The comments about HongKong market shows how little Apple knows about Chinese market. HongKong has only 7 million people, the majority of HongKong iPhone sales actually goes to mainland people that travels to HongKong to buy things from luxury bags to iPhones. There is not a really separate HongKong market. When is the last time that Apple participate in anything meaningful in China besides sales? Did they make any donation to Chinese education cause? How about sponsoring some music festivals? Why didn't the analysts ask these kind of questions?

Good luck to him but I seriously doubt he would be able to get any traction with phone that is just a slightly improved over what are on the markets today. Those easy days are over long time ago. I could see a phone that can transform to a robot would be able to grab shares in today's market and make money. Short of that, it would just be a waste of money. He should instead doing something else.

Shame on Apple. Shouldn't they try to make the regulators work a bit harder to at least produce some evidence that an violation indeed happened? Apple is walking down a very slippery slope. I wish Apple can put up a fight when a fight is called.

it seems we all go through 5-stage of grievance every time after an Apple event. I will come around to buy the most ridiculous MacBook Pro 13 with Touch Bar in about a month. Sigh. 

felix01 said:

This is starting to worry me, I'm seeing more and more cases where the Apple culture seems to be swinging toward the 'deadlines aren't really meaningful' side of the pendulum. Always before, when I ordered something from Apple with an "in the future" delivery date, I could bet money Apple would beat the projected delivery date. Now I'm not so sure, the attitude about deadlines and NLT dates seems to have shifted.

really？what about the white iPhone 4? Rather later than flaw. You can't fix hardware after it shipped.