>Which illustrates perfectly how severely delussional some Apple followers
are.<
Lighten up, dude.
> I called this stock down all the way from $40 to $13, but in soup's little
fantasy-world, Apple has done great all this years.<
Well, I think I enjoyed using Apple *products* a lot more than the DOS/Win 3.1/'95 users I know.
> In his world of fairies ...<
You leave my fairies out of this!
>... loyal customers and advanced operating systems that are *not upgraded in
eight years*... <
So, the OS8 upgrade *didn't* account for 33% of all OS sales in 1997, Huh... Huh?
>I'm a contrarian indicator. I'm sure you have plenty of money on that World.<
I was going to add a ":)" to my "put" comment, but I thought you'd get the joke without it.
>On the real one, which is the one the rest of us inhabit, I was bearish and
you were bullish. The stock moved from $40 to $13. ... <
And you've gotten filthy rich by backing up that opinion with shorts and puts?
>Admitting your error seems to be above you ...<
Assuming, I'm deleriously "right" now about what's going on with AAPL company/products/stock, having been bullish for so long does indeed makes me de facto "wrong" (regardless of what happens in the future.)
[Off-topic: What I was really dumb about was my overweighting of emerging markets last year. Ouch.]
However in my defense, I paraphrase Peter Lynch -- "All my best ideas seemed to work out in the third and fourth years."
My current perception of events as they are unfolding dictates that a) I hold a core position long-term, b) take some profits on short covering spikes, c) add to my position on news-less weakness.
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