  Recent results from the AMS-02 data have confirmed that the cosmic ray
positron fraction increases with energy between 10 and 200GeV. This quantity
should not exceed 50%, and it is hence expected that it will either converge
towards 50% or fall. We study the possibility that future data may show the
positron fraction dropping down abruptly to the level expected with only
secondary production, and forecast the implications of such a feature in term
of possible injection mechanisms that include both dark matter and pulsars.
{Were a sharp steepening to be found, rather surprisingly, we conclude that
pulsar models would do at least as well as dark matter scenarios in terms of
accounting for any spectral cut-off.
