robjn

Why are you printing this garbage!

It is obviously not true because that's not how manufacturing millions of parts works. Why give credence to it by repeating it.

This "Apple can't decide" story is also just a repeat of claims made months ago.

Apple should offer a cheaper Apple Music tier. Perhaps it could be limited to a fixed number of hours usage per month.

If you rarely listen to music $9.99 is a bit steep.

You write
Mechant "has a robust body of work"

Robust?

He has a history of hostility towards Apple. Not exactly the fair and balanced historian you want to write this kind of account.

See
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/06/13/a-bad-sign

I enjoyed the way Eddie and Craig joked with John Gruber about Apple Car on The Talk Show last week.

WWDC had so many positives from a business perspective. AR with existing hardware, VR, Apple Cash Card, new hardware with the Mac exceeding expectations, a new product category, a huge advance for iPad in iOS11, new worlds opened up to developers including access to NFC, Vision and Machine Learning, insulin delivery, huge speed/storage advances that make existing hardware more powerful in APFS, new image and video codec support, Metal VR optimization tools. A refreshed App Store which will be more professional for business users (with games tucked away in their own tab). And so much more.

Nether-the-less if you read the articles that are featured on stock apps and sites there has been nothing but negativity. Investors want the stock to go up and down so they can make money. They figure it's about time for them to cash in - send the stock lower then buy it back at a cheaper price! This is their business.