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&#x27;ve been reading going back 30 years.<p>There is a reliable indicator of Apples expected sales-- and it&#x27;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.)<p>The idea that the s products are &quot;lackluster&quot; 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 &quot;nothings different&quot; (because apparently to these people if the case is the same the internals must be too.)<p>Usually, despite the claim Apple was sold, you don&#x27;t see this level of poor journalism in the WSJ.  But I guess that&#x27;s the nature of the &quot;news game&quot; now.