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lkrupp said:

I agree with Mr. Gates. The strident caterwauling about privacy and government snooping by anonymous commenters on websites like this one is hilarious. If the FBI showed up at your doorstep you’d piss your pants and cry like a baby. You most certainly would not meet them at the door with your gun. If you pull on the dragon’s tail once to often you’re going to get burned. It is entirely possible that democratic governments will legislate access to encrypted data at some point. Better to be calm and quiet about it while demanding your privacy than to start a confrontation. Face it, people no longer control their governments, democratic or otherwise.

tzeshan said:

Exaggerating security risk is an ideology propaganda. First of all, what kind of risk China poses on US citizens? The spy agencies must first define the risks before they can deduce anything and arrive on any consequence. To be honest there are many people in the US pose more severe risk to American citizens. The US government and spy agencies chose to ignore this more severe risk. We do have many police in the name of protecting citizens. The truth is the police are dispatched only after people have been murdered. 

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Rayz2016 said:

rogifan_new said:

Of course. And if March was predicted to be a record quarter then all eyes (read: pessimism) would be on June. Every time Apple has a good quarter and the stock does nothing people say it’s not about the past but the future. Because with Apple the future can never be as good or better than the past. Wall Street is constantly assuming doom is around the quarter. And Apple leadership have done squat to change that narrative. All the stock buybacks in the world and Apple’s PE is still pathetic and the stock way more volatile compared to its tech peers. One sketchy supply chain rumor from Asia and the stock drops 2%. Disgusting. And a perfect example is Facebook. They admitted engagement is down because of the changes they made to the newsfeed yet the stock is up 4% today. If that was Apple the stock would be tanking today.

 I don’t think there is any other tech company that is assessed in this “constant hunt for bad news” kind of a way. 

Maybe not as wide scale, but that's because of Apple's mindshare more than anything else. This forum, for instance, has members that have been saying that pretty much every (if not every) Apple competitor will be shuttering its doors in some ridiculously short duration. The number of times I've read on this forum by regulars that Microsoft will fold within some 6 to 12 month timeframe is very high, despite them being able to cost for years, if not decades, even if they don't make another sale starting right this moment.

GeorgeBMac said:

I'm glad that you and your segment is happy with the current state of the iPad.  For many others, most others, it doesn't meet their needs.  They need a laptop.  Apple can satisfy both without taking anything away from either....   It's not either/or...