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I'm sure that casting spells is exactly the way Gates viewed Jobs. Gates is a plugger, and no dummy, but he was also very lucky to be in the right place at the right time. Gates has never had taste or an eye for design. He remains extremely envious of Jobs's charisma. He is Salieri watching Mozart.

Jony will continue to work with Apple, but it will require a special adapter.

There is a market for a waterproof phone. Seal it up. Use bluetooth speaker and mic, and wireless charging, and call it the iPhone Sport series. It's not necessarily for everyone, but I think a lot of people would buy one.  It would allow Apple to push these technologies forward without immediately forcing them on everyone.

The old MacPro fits the gap pretty well for this missing machine, if Apple would price it realistically. A desktop better than the mini but not as capable as the pro, priced in the middle. It could sell. All they'd need to do is update the ports.

The U.S. blacklist is supposedly for security reasons, but there have been no publicly demonstrated vulnerabilities or malware reported on any Huawei devices. As some of you may recall, Bloomberg published a news article a few months back regarding Chinese-made server hardware having intentional back doors to allow their government to spy on us. All of that was quickly refuted by Apple, Google, and others. Unless new information comes forward, this looks like unfounded Trump administration pressure on a big Chinese company designed to create leverage in unrelated trade disputes.