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I do like Echo. A great advantage is Amazon Prime. If you already have it, then your Echo device has a great music library. It supplements what AP lacks from I heart radio etc. 

I hope Apple's entry into this space doesn't require to to subscribe to Apple Music in order to offer a robust song selection. 

Great article -- except, they're not "fearing" Apple's failure they're "desiring" it. As in, longing for, wishing, hastening, and precipitating -- or trying to. Many want to bring down the mighty. They want to short the stock. They want to potentiate the competition. But whatever the motivation, the predictions of doom and gloom for Apple are wrong.

Only suckers doubted iPhone sales to the benefit of professional traders. 

I predict that sales are not anemic. This is a classic repeat of the whole controversy, when many were incorrectly claiming that "the iPhone 5C isn't selling well." That phone turned out to be a very solid seller, consistently over time. Same thing here. The current lineup will drive both sales and margins to record highs. Accounts to the contrary, again in my opinion, are either ignorant or willfully misleading. Secret of the stock market = buy low + sell high.

Great idea! But anthology series don't have the streaming addictiveness of serialized drama. I'm sure Apple will come up with its HOUSE OF CARDS/BREAKING BAD/GOT.