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Not to forget FTFT, "Future FinTech Group Inc", that despite the fancy name is a tiny fruit juice company. 'pivoted' to blockchain, stock shot up more than 200%. What a time to be alive!

Having exactly the same issues on my iPhone 6S. Camera randomly takes forever to load, and sometimes doesn't load at all (black screen). Since iOS 11 it's a 50/50 chance that accepting an incoming call works. I press the green button but it keeps ringing until the other person hangs up. Even physical home button becomes unresponsive, many times a day I have to do a forced restart (home button + sleep wake button pressed). This is infuriating!!

As a german, this techno-phobic attitude was really getting to me for the longest time. It's just so incredible convenient not having to scramble for coins when taking the tram and many other examples. Living in London, I rarely take my wallet with me anymore. Apple Pay and my Mondo card is all I need.

Come to think of it, some time in the not so distant future, Germany will probably have the last laugh once the entire electronic payment system collapsed under the Next Big Cyberattack (tm)... insert coin here.

Owning a brand and licensing the brand name for a specific product line (in this case watches) is an important distinction. Fossil Group does neither own Burberry nor Adidas as a brand, but rather licensed it to use their name to produce watches. This is prevalent in fragrance/cosmetics where a branded perfume is rarely produced 'in-house'.