[zeveb]

> At this point it is becoming cliche to predict the demise of Apple.

Well, if everyone's doing it then in a certain sense they _have_ lost a lot of their cachet, no?

Also, you don't remember the late 90s. I was a huge Apple fan back then, and those were some disheartening years. In retrospect, I rather wish I'd bought their stock back then …

[mikeash]

Apple really was in trouble back then, though, so all the doom and gloom was justified. In 1997, they had $7 billion in revenue and lost about $1 billion. They now make more in profit per quarter than they had in revenue for all of 1997.

There are some signs that they may be headed for trouble eventually, but they're fairly minor, considering.