The Macbook Pro and the iMac are still the best computers out there, though.
The generation of revenue and profits are incredible. It's odd to me that anyone could find something negative about having the most profitable quarter in history. That's just amazing.
These ANAL-CYSTS will pull something out of the pimples on their nethermost orifices to find fault no matter what. They're complaining that Apple did not meet THEIR estimates of what Apple should sell in each of the product categories. They complain that Apple didn't meet THEIR estimates of revenue, but write about it as if these estimates were engraved in stone by God, and it is a venal sin for Apple to have missed these estimates they pulled out of their rears, twirled around in their fingers, smelled, and then pronounced good.
CNBC is, and has been, one of the worst of the lot, so much so that one pundit has laid a lot of the drop in AAPL on their doorstep because of the constant litany of negativity with innuendo and rumors based on absolutely nothing, so much so that it because self-fulfilling.
Of course, putting their negativity out there, CNBC's bile get's picked up by the blogosphere, then echoed back and forth, which gets quoted and gains a life of quotations as though each of them knows something they really don't. When one tracks it all down, it leads back to CNBC.
Yahoo Finance bent so low this last summer they actually FAKED the Wall Street whisper numbers for Apple's Revenue between 8:30 AM, before the Financial Call, and 2:00 PM, when Apple released the numbers, beating the numbers Wall Street was expecting by $1.4 BILLION in revenue. But Yahoo Finance posted a head line claiming Apple MISSED the Revenue Whisper number by over $1 billion (!) and their new whisper number had been increased from the one they had published just that morning at 8:30!!! That whisper number doesn't change on the day of financial releases.
On that day, even though Apple was reporting another RECORD QUARTER, with huge numbers beating everything except the over-heated expectations on iPhone sales and iPads expected drop, Yahoo's false headline and its meme took off. It was after hours and AAPL in after hours trading dropped like a stone! The next morning's opening AAPL was off by about 12 dollars. Someone bought a WHOLE lot of AAPL in after hours. . . and then Yahoo said OOPS! Mea Culpa! and deleted the story from 2:00 PM and apologized, saying the meant Apple missed on iPhone numbers only. Meanwhile, a whole lot of small investors who read that, dropped their AAPL at a loss, but someone else who, I think, know what was going on in advance, bought in and made a killing!
I posted the two articles on FR, pointing out the fraudulent data. . . but no one else in the Financial Press seemed to notice that Yahoo Finance had doctored the Whisper number to be able to claim Apple had missed on Revenue when it was an obvious lie!
Where is the Securities and Exchange Commission on all this? Out to lunch. They are supposed to be watching but they have ignored these shenanigans all through the Obama administration as these Anal-cysts have manipulated AAPL for theirs and buddies', the stock traders' gain at the expense of the amateur traders and investors.
ZOT!
What does that tell you about motives?