proffers reasons-Why (Apple ascending), with mostly ept sub-analyses in replies.
'Alexkhan2000', a frequent East/West traveler, has several lengthy observations on mindsets of current [then] buyers in the various clientele-countries, etc.
Still, in the spirit of Murican Vulture-corporatism: It is not Enough that a One succeed: Others must Fail!
I shall not be sufficiently over-Joyed (in this piddling arena) until Redmond is a ghost town, inhabited by one of the roving bands of banana-repuublic-unemployed
--lookin fer Mad Max II ... fer Leadership.
Goooo --> Visigoths cha cha cha
:oTyp