[chucknelson]

The author forgets one other factor that has become significant: the death of Steve Jobs.

So it's the "law or large numbers" and the "doomed without Steve" arguments that impact the news of Apple these days, but hopefully some of that will fade with time.

[technoslut]

AAPL has seen serious fluctuations during the Jobs era as well when everyone thought he was healthy. The day that Jobs showed off the iPad the stock had a serious drop as well. The same goes for the day he shoed off the Macbook Air as well.

In fact, Apple has better The Streets for most of the past six years.