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tht said:

Frankly, I’m amazed that >30m units of this voice assistant speakers can even be sold. I wonder what the retention is, ie, how people use them actively versus them being put in storage or lying dormant, unused. 

I expect that they are like me and have 2 or 3 around the house.  That’s something very expensive to do with a HomePod despite many holiday sales for as low as $250.  Siri is too crappy as an assistant and the HomePod is too limited as a Speaker.   Ironic that it turns out as a failure like Apples last attempt at speakers.   Not that this is the end of HP because they could make it better by making Siri better.

I wish they would put QualComm modems back in so that when they say the new phone is "The Best iPhone we ever made" it would be true.
That title still rests with the iPhone 7/7+ which was the last to have QC.

Can I hope for a laptop with a greater travel keyboard?

Sounds beautiful.   We will love everything about it but the Price.   I'm expecting $1,999.

anome said:

How did I guess it wold be Ming-Chi Kuo?

For well informed, wasn't there something he got wrong late last year? I don't remember the details, but I think there was something he said was going to happen that didn't. Does anyone have a scorecard of his predictions so far?

[EDIT] Oh, and new iPad Pros is kind of a no-brainer. They'll upgrade them to use this year's processors at some point. The Ceramic Apple Watch is less of a given, since they seemed to have dropped the Edition line. I suppose you can always say that the ceramic back on the normal watch might have been a source for confusion.

Other than that, nothing really exceptional. No predictions on the iMac updates, or this year's MacBooks or iPhones. Or even the non-Pro iPad. All of which I expect to see upgraded this year. Do I get my lucrative analyst job now?

Since the current iPadPro (2018) already has a A12X processor I'm sure the iPadPro won't come out till after this year's new iPhones are released.