neoncat

Worth noting if batteries are your concern, all XBox controllers have a user accessible battery slot and take standard AAs. I use Eneloop rechargeables with mine. 

Texas has some interesting ideas about tax rebates for business—some of the most generous in the entire country. It's a no-brainer to relocate there if you can pull talent. Austin is an interesting and diverse city, lots of viewpoints and ideas (and Apple has a huge presence there). Houston is genuinely not terrible either, really, outside of its weird (read: non-existent) zoning laws. Hope you like a factory moving in next door. I've traveled to Houston a lot for business (well, used to) and found I didn't hate it as much as I expected I would.

But talking about a state like Colorado as "ruined" is pretty funny, given the concentration of wealth and entrepreneurship here. My home state of Wisconsin, tho... now there's a backwater. I have no desire to ever return. Beautiful scenery, especially up north, but culturally... scary place. 

Funny thing about the original story on Bloomberg is nowhere does it say "iPhone." Nor does the follow-up article, or any of the aggregator versions that then amplified the original article. In fact, this version here at AppleInsider is the only one that mentions "iPhone."

Depends how much you want to spend on diminishing returns, really. I recently picked up a nearly mint 2017 iPad Pro (256/wifi) for $350 off Facebook Marketplace. Quick check with Coconut Battery showed 53 cycles. Add $90 for an Apple Pencil from Amazon and I'm off to the races looking for ways to incorporate it into my business. It's a nice piece of kit for the price I paid. I can't imagine paying north of $900 or $1000 for an iPad. The value just isn't there for me. But more power to people for whom it is. 

lkrupp said:

My grudge against those retailers remains today and I always buy my Apple gear directly from Apple.

Why? So you can pay more? Buy from wherever is cheapest, has what you want, and is selling genuine goods/is an authorized reseller to make sure your warranty coverage is in place. There's no difference in the object, they all came from the same dark corner of Shenzhen. Holding a "grudge" about where you buy stuff is silly.