mcarling

The success of the iPhone SE shows that it's a mistake to not keep the 4" iPhones up-to-date.  Not everyone wants a phablet-sized iPhone like the 6 or 6S.

Apple should be sponsoring Formula E, not Formula 1.  Formula E is the future, Formula 1 is the past.

A long overdue move. Good riddance.

This is the best reason I've seen to upgrade to Sierra.  I so look forward to an Internet without Flash.

I used to write circuit simulation software for Intel.  I have no doubt that Apple will use this for development of new A10, A11, S2, S3, etc. chip designs.  Daily chip design work is confirmed by simulation, but every month or so one needs to manufacture a small batch of actual silicon to validate the simulations.  Without its own little fab such as this one, Apple would have to send their preliminary (and highly secret) designs to their chip manufacturing partners TSMC and Samsung.  With its own little fab such as this one, Apple can use exactly the same equipment that TSMC and Samsung would use in production to validate their designs while keeping their design secrets (relatively) safe within Apple until they are ready to go into production.