gargravarr

Be wary of what? A phone you can't purchase yet? It doesn't matter what features you 'believe' the phone will have - only what is released. Until then, it's irrelevant. Speculation might be fun, but that's all it is, since you can't buy it.

dougd said:

The Watch is a failure and a piece of junk

Literally every piece of evidence would contradict this - back under your bridge, troll.

"Ireland's investment of escrowed back taxes paid by Apple on the orders of the European Commission are not performing as well as they could be" No investment is performing as well as it 'could be' - even if they were making a million dollars a second, they could be making more. Suggesting they are not performing 'as expected', however, is quite reasonable. This has been Investing For Pedants.

"MacBooks should just be thicker, because that's what people really want: a thick PC with USB-A ports and maybe a tablet mode featuring detachable bases, m most importantly with no "butterfly" keyboard. " Except for the detachable base, that's what some of us do want. I would consider a laptop again as my main machine if they would make one that didn't have the goal of having as few ports as possible. The keyboard issue is nothing but bad publicity - the drive to thinness has sacrificed usability. As a bonus, they could put larger batteries in such a machine.

"Poised to challenge" with three stores? A bit of an oversell, I would think. It will be interesting to see if this works for Samsung, but they have a long way to go to achieve the kind of success the Apple Stores have had.