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If Apple had decided to include mouse support back when the iPad was introduced, then all these iPad specific apps we see in the App Store today wouldn’t have been. This is because people, both users and developers, almost always follow the path of least resistance. They always tend to fall back to what they already know. 
This is what’s plagued the Surface all these years. Despite MS Windows massive user base, the Surface is constantly being outsold by the iPad. Heck it’s even being outsold by even the lesser user/market share Mac. The public will not want to spend that much money for what they consider to be a very small PC (aka netbook). 
I don’t think that Apple wants to turn the iPad into a MacBook lite. 

My one problem with bottled water, ethical or otherwise, is that often it travels huge distances to get to the buyer’s hands. 
What should be promoted is access to cheap, clean, local city/tap water for every citizen, whether you live in Flint or Beverly Hills. 

AppleInsider said:

What might put a damper on BOE's ambitions is poor iPhone sales, a problem since the December quarter. On Tuesday separate research by Longbow and JP Morgan indicated that Apple's supply chain is reflecting weak demand -- Longbow added that people are even searching for iPhones less often on the Web, in fact 47 percent less on China's Baidu.

It’s still around 100 million OLED screened iPhones per year. How would that be bad business?

elijahg said:

entropys said:

While that is true, Eric, those Chrome laptops are destroying Apple’s role in the class room. Not only are they cheap, but it it is an integrated, easy to maintain wholistic system of software and services.  It’s depressingly easy it has been for google.  

That and Apple's obsession with the iPad in the classroom, whilst shunning the Mac and Xserve hasn't helped.

Xserve was simply not a viable business. 
Nobody’s shunning the Mac. 

andyring said:

Love my iPhone and Apple Watch. Having said that, I'll eat what I want and then die fat and happy.

OK, if your definition of happy is having trouble getting off your chair to go to the bathroom, or sleeping with an oxygen tank next to your bed.