Breaking Down Apple’s Services Announcements (Premium)

This week’s Apple services event was anticlimactic, full of bluster but only vague promises for the most part.

And no offense to the Apple faithful, but if the single available service that came out of that event---News+, which is really just about magazines---is any indication, there’s not a whole of there, there. If you know what I mean.

To make my case, I am evaluating some key...