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I suspect it's intended to compete with Google's Chromebooks in the K-12 market. That'd put the price in the $300 range when sold in bulk to schools. Competition with iPads and MacBooks will be reduced by not marketing it to the public. And I suspect the screen will be low-quality.

Please excuse the large bold type. I do this because I suspect I'm not the only one who has trouble reading tiny font that's the default font for posts.

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iPhones made in the U.S.? Trump spent his business career shilling for casinos and luxury condos with his name on them. He knows nothing about modern manufacturing, particularly that of high-tech items. They're made all over the world and the final assembly. which earns the "Made in the U.S." label, is a trivia process, as anyone who'd watched an iFixit tear-down video knows. It is dull, repetitive work that doesn't earn those who do it much money. Getting all hot and bothered about bringing it here is ridiculous.

We can contrast Trump with Ronald Reagan. In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union became worried that they were falling behind in high tech. Reagan and George Shultz, his Secretary of State, took advantage of those fears. They showed Soviet leaders high-tech gear opened up to demonstrate that the components came from a host of countries. Russia, as a single and highly repressive country,  they stressed, could not compete with innovations coming from almost the entire world. That argument led Soviet leaders to become less repressive and the result was the end of the Cold War.

Contrast that with Trump's chauvinistic nationalism, which is leading the world into a nasty trade war that's pitting almost every country on the planet against Trump with his crazy tariff 'dictate of the day.'

Another benefit might be fewer viruses and a better system of updates stay ahead of them.

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A few years back when I exited Adobe's subscription trap, I felt like joining this choir and celebrating.

If cameos were good enough for Alfred Hitchcock from 1927 on, I don't know why they wouldn't be OK for Tim Cook. I've heard that for Hitchcock they became such a big deal with fans that to keep them from spoiling their watching, he placed them near the start.