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payeco said:

What are they hoping to achieve here? Even if they win no government agencies are going to purchase their equipment. 

They don't have any real illusions about the US government purchasing their stuff.  Their aim is twofold:

1.  From a purely Huawei company perspective, they want to put up a fight so their European and other customers around the world don't follow suit.  If the US narrative wins out, they are in big trouble worldwide.

2.  From the perspective of the Chinese government, which make no mistake has a heavy hand in how Huawei and ZTE do business, they want to try and force the US to reveal exactly what they know about their efforts to put back doors in their equipment.  Most of the details of this are classified Top Secret.  They're hoping through a lawsuit to gain a little more insight into exactly what we know and how we know it.

Are these imbeciles for real?  The existence of Google and Facebook alone should negate all this false concern.  Good Lord.

I upgraded last year to an 8.  I'd love to have an XS Max but just can't bite that big a bullet one year later.

I think the unspoken story here is that Apple got too ambitious with the price increases across their product line.  Price of entry on everything went up significantly.

polymnia said:

Alternative idea: Perhaps the plan for iPhone is to phase out a wired connector entirely. It seems to me that once wireless charging gets a big enough foothold, and Bluetooth matures for short range data transmission, there is not compelling reason to continue punching a big hole in the bottom of our iPhones. I'd prefer a completely wireless iPhone that was more waterproof & had more room for battery & functional components.

Wireless charging will have to gain not only a big foothold in homes, but everywhere else too.  It's one thing to tote around a charging cable to be able to plug in anywhere there's a spare outlet.  It's a whole other thing to have to carry a charging mat around.

Personally, I think the 12" MacBook should become the new entry level one.  Start it at 128GB if you must for SSD, but smaller screen, fewer ports, slower processor and no Touch ID seems to make it a prime candidate to take over the sub $1000 slot once the only MBA goes away.  They could even just offer it in one color to make it cheaper to make.  Ideally, I'd like to see the 12" MacBook come in at $899.  Then the MBA at $1099 if they're going to insist on 128GB SSDs for the base model, or keep it at $1199 and start with 256GB SSDs.  Ditch the lowest end MBP without TouchBar and maybe keep the step up one that's $1499, and then of course keep the rest of the MBP line up above that.