[dayglored]

> Since that is a growth chart, and the numbers remain positive, even if lower than the peak, it is still excellent...

Ah, but you see, whenever someone wants to make things look grim, but they can't because the numbers are good, they take the first derivative and don't make it obvious that's what they did.

Hell, I've seen these statistical hoodlums take the SECOND derivative when necessary, because the first was still too positive for their desires to trash the subject. You know, the ones that trumpet, "OMG! END OF THE WORLD! THE RATE OF INCREASE IS GOING DOWN!"

Tech writers whores are nothing more than click-bait factories. It's depressing that Forbes has fallen this low.

[dayglored]

Oh, right, I forgot... and they FORECAST well into the uncertain future, to underscore their dubious point with conjecture. Nice. I'm surprised they didn't drop the 2017-2019 curve BELOW zero just because they can -- after all, it's just made up crap, why not go for broke?

What a freakin' joke these guys are.

And these same turkeys go after Microsoft the same way. I see it when I peruse for Windows Ping List articles. Doom and gloom, left, right, and center. Microsoft is doing fine, and will continue to do so. WTF is up with tech writers whores, anyway?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

And don't get me started about the people that take the third derivative.

They're just a bunch of jerks.

/obscure math joke

[adorno]

A thirty percent decline in sales will spook anybody, even he company in question. And, the investors and consumers.

Being dismissive of such a huge drop in sales, is not how one goes about acknowledging that, it could be the beginning of the end for the perception of perfect that came with the Apple logo.