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AppleInsider said:

Google is reportedly working on plans to eventually replace Android with a new version of ChromeOS with the ability to host Android apps in addition to web apps running in the Chrome browser.

Good luck with that.

lmagoo said:

To use Alphabet/Google for anything other than search is totally absurd!!

97% of Google's revenue comes from ads.
Everything else is just a public relations stunt to make you like them.
(Think "Hansel and Gretel" - the evil witch lures kids with her gingerbread house...)

Fair price.
Might not really be worth it from Apple's perspective to put together an AppleCare+ plan for AirPods.
Might not really be worth it from the end-users' perspective even if Apple did have AppleCare+ for AirPods.

Let's not forget that Softbank purchased ARM Holdings this year, for $32 billion.
This is the same ARM Holdings to whom Apple pays the "architectural license" for the rights to develop their Ax system-on-chip (SoC).
I.e. Apple pays ARM for the right to sell their own custom Ax SoC that run ARM's ISA - Instruction Set Architecture.
Costs Apple less per-chip and lets them build faster, more efficient SoCs than if they licensed ARM's "reference" SoC design.

So yes.  Makes sense for Apple to invest in the company that owns the IP for their (current) bread-and-butter computing hardware architecture.

thewhitefalcon said:

anome said:

And still no Apple Television.

Quite surprising seeing an actual photo. I always picture him looking like renowned Critic Gene Shalit.

Gene's problem was that he was a few decades too late, we already had the Mac TV. 

I have seen a Macintosh TV.  At a Fry's Electronics.  
A long time ago in a Silicon Valley far far away...