Apple should be broken up in 4 independent companies which would be open to competition with other companies :
- Hardware (iPhone, iMac, VR,...)
- OS
- Software (App store)
- Services (Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Books, etc.)

I'm Swiss, almost 60 and have never seen a cheque in my life.

What about CLIFF YABLONSKI, is he still alive ?

By getting large volume rebates and exclusivity deals with 1,8 inches HDD manufacturers, apple put all its competitors providing HDD based mp3 players out of the market, not able to compete on price.

@msmash : German language has that nice feature, that if you have an antiquated system that cannot display accented (umlauted) german characters, you can use the non-accented character follwed by an "e" instead. ü -> ue
Graubünden -> Graubuenden

Yeah, then Trump should add "I'm not a presidential expert" to each sentence.

... mainly because it could be used to bypass apple's walled garden fences.

"The online encyclopedia now boasts more than 5.7 million articles in English and millions more translated into other languages"
Sorry to break your english-centric point of view, but a good part of the non English articles of Wikipedia are not just translations of existing English articles, but original articles directly written in "foreign" languages.

And nothing of value was won...

Hard disks are so old fashioned, why don't they use the Cloud ?

It took me several months to backup my data to CrashPlan - now it's back to square one...
Call me an old fart, but the more I read, the less I'm trusting this cloud thing.

When did I miss the episode where hate speech and hate crime became synonyms ?

Six separate Apple announcements on slashdot's first page : enough !
Can't you just summarize all announcements in a single post ?

There are alternative stores for Android devices and for the stuff that Amazon sells.

Having both a macbook and a Galaxy Note 7 smells even fishier...