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It has been years since I went to a movie theater. The last one was a Cinema MAX theater for the likes of Avatar. 

But to be fair, I also don't watch many movies at home either. Series yes, movies no.

My family was an automotive specialty products company for many years. The gestation of the cars in the 50s and 60s was measured in years and improvements were hard fought between marketing and engineers. The basics are simple to talk about and even design individually, but the complete assembly is a completely different world as all those components now have to work together. Not every brand has had great success for every model.

I think Apple went down nearly every rabbit hole seeking a solution and discovered that money can not always buy the correct talent for all aspects of a project. We are not graduating enough engineers in the USA to be a world power anymore. China trains at least ten times the number of engineers than we do every year. That is a major handicap for multi highly skilled technical requirement projects.

I think the alarm bells were going off as this project was a sinking dead weight and Apple salvaged the importent lessons in AI they had learned and kept those folks that ere involved with that aspect and is letting the others sink or swim on their own. 

Hopefully Tim Cook's wait to the Fall message has sustenance and there will be another great device/software invention that will keep the Apple ship afloat. There have been other large companies back in the day that are not even sub foot noted in the business history books today.

The extremely expensive novelty Vision Pro device will not be the Golden Goose to lay more eggs but all of the work invested in creating it will provide a firm foundation for future projects that we the public do not even think about yet.

As a reminder, Steve Jobs had to say the new device's three features three times before the audience suddenly realized this was the iPhone that contained the three properties.

Monopoly typically implies over 50% market share. So 20% is less than 50%.  The difference is that Apple gets a larger share of profits associated with the premium cellphones as they do not make the cheaper models.

The top custom Marantz amplifiers are made by hand in a small shop in Japan. We have two of their Cinema 40 models and they are impressive.

I prefer my two flat 27" Studio Displays because if one dies, the other continues. These huge curved screens are great unless it quits. As these curved displays are typically the sole display, the user is out of luck unless there is a battle spare in the closet.