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Google is going to lose in Europe, remain locked out of China, continue losing ad revenue to Facebook and the biggest one, lose the Oracle lawsuit regarding the inappropriate use of Java. 

Google is not going to win any of those four major challenges. And losing the oracle lawsuit means the company will be forced to pay licensing fees based on Oracles own terms or rewrite Android. Either scenario completely unpalatable to the company. 

But Google, who steals the intellectual property of others, is facing their own Karma. They are reaping what they have sown. 

I don't expect much to come of this lawsuit, but I do fully expect Google to lose to Oracle and to lose big in Europe. All while Facebook eats big time into Google's ad revenue. 

All of this couldn't happen to a nicer company. I for one will not miss Google. 

The reviewer has left out the elephant in the room, the iPad Pro. Editing 4K video on the iPad Pro is a breeze. Battery life is better than on the MacBook and I can use the incredible pencil. 

When Apple finally comes to its senses and puts an A series chip into the MaBook, I will purchase one.  Until they do, I won't be buying another desktop or laptop from them. 

Both companies are headed into decline. Microsoft still has office as a stable source of revenue, but Windows is headed toward irrelevance. Google's moonshot projects are all costing huge sums of cash and providing negative returns while Facebook continues to develop a much better and more robust advertising model. 

If Apple can get their act together and provide unique content for iTunes while building out their own cloud services, they can potentially grow much more. Apple is now at the fore front of technology. Samsung and LG are leaders in certain aspects of building hardware, but Apple has access to them. 

If Samsung and LG decided to collaborate, they could drop Android and develop Tizen into a better OS. Since those two make the best hardware, they could drive the adoption of an alternative mobile OS. 

Neither MSFT nor Google are proficient in building hardware and both are going to find themselves out competed by those that do. It's already happening. 

Still not interested. The iPad Pro offers superior functionality with a better camera, the ability to edit 4K video, the use of the pencil, superior battery life, the option of Apple Pay (though I use my iPhone for that one fairly exclusively), a wealth of apps not available for OSX, and the ability to use the machine as a portable external monitor. 

I don't need a USB dongle for accessing a cellular network and better video/graphics performance. I have replaced my MacBook Air with the iPad Pro and do not feel the need to purchase an x86 powered machine again, ever. 

While the macbook book comes with a USB-C port the Lightning port on the iPad Pro is capable of interfacing with the USB 3 interface at high speed. 

I remained convinced that OLED panels are coming eventually to the iPhone/iPad line of machines and probably never to the MacBook lines. 

The Skylake bump is nice with 20% better performance than the outgoing machine, but I suspect the A10X is going to bring greater improvements to the iPad line and much better graphics performance. 

The only thing that may have made the MacBook a better machine would have been Thunderbolt, but that port isn't available. 

I am really digging the 12.9" iPad Pro. Once Apple releases an OLED version, I will be immediately upgrading. 

The inclusion of OLED into the iPhone will lead to additional difficulties for the cheap Android knockoffs along with Apple's rapid CPU advancements. Samsung is following suit. 

Xiaomi, Huawei and the rest are in for very difficult times ahead.