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woolie said:

I have had 2 Apple watches & they were junk, for exercising & its subsequent reporting, the battery, were both seriously awful... wifi connectivity a total joke, heart reporting another awful feature...  In frustration I finally went to Fitbit, which provided all of the previous Apple issues better & seamlessly...  Frankly Apple should fire their Apple watch designers & buy out Fitbit & employ them...

You know Apple is in trouble when they continually hide their Watch sales...  Finding someone wearing a Apple watch is extremely rare event & Fitbit's are everywhere...  I am excited about the new Fitbit watch that is coming, there is no hope that Apple is going to match Fitbit...

I own numerous Apple products, but its current management does not contain any visionary people and all of their products are falling behind and continually playing catch up to their competitors & it is painful to witness...   I know the Apple fanboys will go nuts but I am sorry, I am not drinking Apple's Koolaide... 

Wow...read your posting history. You are either the unlucky_with_Apple_products exception that proves the rule or one miserable sob. 

planetary paul said:

"We've got a real problem in that...." we can no longer see what our population is up to, due to this encryption thingy and that scares us shitless. So we flash the crime-, pedo- and terrorists cards as leverage to get it mitigated.

You forgot "Oh the children!"

Whilst not enjoying the outlook for a U.K. Company, Imagination has been quite undervalued for many years on the Stock Exchange with many analysts concerned with their 'all eggs in one basket' business ré Apple. So it's not a new thing. 
I also don't quite get their beef with Apple for two particular reasons.
 One...and correct me if I'm wrong, I can't ever recollect a company getting eighteen to twenty four months notice by their major income source.That amounts to a wake up call. These sort of decisions are usually a closely protected secret up until a time when a major change happens. The disclosure was Imagination's, not Apple's. Instead, they wasted the grace period opportunity by going straight into a public squabble that enforces their difficulties in the eyes of prospective buyers. Not a good move. And sympathy is in short supply in conglomerate-land anyway. 
Secondly, I don't see what claim they have over IP, until Apple actually produces their graphics solution...which they're still working on so it would be impossible to tell Imagination much at all even if Apple was inclined to share development secrets? Have they learned nothing in the last ten years or so? 

bshank said:

The silver lining is at least Apple will have their day in court to argue. In Europe if the EC felt the Watch was an excellent enough product it should be given out for free as a public service and fine Apple for being a monopoly if they didn't bend to the EC's will (like Google search)

Oh please...the EU is many things, good and bad, but it's not wilfully authoritarian. 

SpamSandwich said:

Seems an odd choice of song to mark this dire event.

"We build too many walls, and not enough bridges" :  Isaac Newton