Apple jerks our chains
Can we really change the subject from Steve Jobs' health to Apple's holiday sales results? Even for reporters who regularly cover Apple (AAPL) and are used to getting manipulated by the company's well-oiled PR machine, this is a headsnap. One day we're supposed process the news that Steve Jobs is too sick to run world's...
Who buys Apple's $18+ billion quarter?
Analysts either don't believe Apple's revenue guidance, or they're deliberately low-balling it Anybody who follows its earnings reports can tell you that Apple (AAPL) guides conservatively, under-estimating its forward-looking numbers to demolish them at the end of the quarter. Only once in the past 23 quarters -- in the summer of 2006 -- did it...
