MDJ 2020.02.28: Finding the Elephant

When evaluating rumors, don’t mistake “obvious” for “true."

This week we’ve felt something like the old story of blind men trying to describe an elephant. It’s easy enough to conceive of something that looks like a Mac but has an ARM-based Apple A-series “Bionic” chip inside it instead of an Intel processor. Although a single report from a single analyst (who rumor sites would prefer we did not question) kicked …