The Wall Street Journal, in the early 1990s, reported that Apple had been bought by Sun Microsystems. They never retracted the story. This may be a generally

The Wall Street Journal, in the early 1990s, reported that Apple had been bought by Sun Microsystems. They never retracted the story. This may be a generally credible newspaper, but this article sounds just like the constant stream of Apple Doom-And-Gloom I've been reading going back 30 years. There is a reliable indicator of Apples expected sales-- and it's forward looking. This is the CapEx expenditures, which Apple forecasts out in its reports. When they expect to sell a lot of new phones, they buy more equipment to be able to make those phones. Apple hates to have lack of supply when they release a new product and there is huge demand (And Apple never has huge warehouses of unsold products they have to unload like other companies do.) The idea that the s products are "lackluster" is silly... they have been following a tick-tock strategy for 5 years now and it has been working effectively, but every tock year we hear about how "nothings different" (because apparently to these people if the case is the same the internals must be too.) Usually, despite the claim Apple was sold, you don't see this level of poor journalism in the WSJ. But I guess that's the nature of the "news game" now.