Some ill-sourced dirty laundry about Apple Retail does not apply here. If I may engage in some hyperbole: this is the highest-profile product in all of consumer

Some ill-sourced dirty laundry about Apple Retail does not apply here. If I may engage in some hyperbole: this is the highest-profile product in all of consumer electronics that is at the forefront of almost any discussion regarding the biggest change in how seven billion humans spend their days in a long, long time. And disrupting a decade-old ecosystem of a billion 'things' is not engaged in for cost saving measures.