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Dead_Pool said:

Don’t ever finance anything — even at zero percent — other than real estate or education. If you don’t have the money in the bank, you can’t afford it. Financing will only dig a deeper hole. Merry Christmas 

This is dumb. Put your money where it will earn you a return while taking advantage of Apple's (or other vendors) deep pockets that allow you to spread your purchase over time at absolutely zero additional long-term cost to you.

Yeh!   They keep making things better and cheaper.   Damn cheaters!  Not fair!

If you actually owned a company and produced a product that was blatantly ripped off and then sold at a cut rate by the Chinese, you’d be furious too. They do this not just to the Apples of the world, but to the small family-run American companies too.

GeorgeBMac said:

So we are moving production out of the highest quality, lowest cost facilities in order to support a failing, trumped up trade war?

As Winston Churchill pointed out:  "Americans always do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else"

Good grief, everything is about Trump for some of you people. 

Becoming reliant on manufacturing in a repressive Communist country that is our #1 geopolitical rival, one that refuses to enforce IP rights (have you seen Xiaomi’s new “Mimojis”???) and rips off everything American countries do with impunity, was a bad idea from the start. Shifting away from Chinese dependence was inevitable and is overdue.

I’m actually amazed Google is doing the right thing here. After all, they’ve been fueling Asian knockoff artists (including Samsung) since Android 1.0, at the expense of/on the backs of American companies and American innovation. Remember how Google bought one of the last remaining American mobile device companies (Motorola), only to mine their patents before dumping the company off on the Chinese? All to build a mobile market share monopoly to feed their sweet, sweet digital surveillance advertising business.

Now all that remain are Apple and, surprise, Google. Who, like Microsoft before them, found it worthwhile to stab their hardware “partners” in the back by jumping into the hardware market themselves for some potentially-lucrative double-dipping.

Google are scum, but at least they’re doing the right thing here. For once. 

AppleExposed said:

gbdoc said:

Noticeably missing: a new, better MacBook. Not bells and whistles, no TouchBar gimmick, just a plain but capable portable machine with modern, useful innards. Whose omission, Apple's or the authors?

AirPods were released just 2 years ago and Apple Watch just before that.

The "Apple can't innovate" meme has been dead for years.