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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (167)	2/24/2011 11:02:53 AM
From: Stock Puppy	Respond to of 32680

You forgot Polaroid also. No one would expect their fall from grace. The good news about Apple is that most everyone considers how it can fall except for the most hardened of fanboys. The shorts - well you know them. They know every which way. The longs feel that it still has much more to go in an exponential market. And if not, the longs will just trade in their shares for parts of Finland.

To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (167)	2/24/2011 3:11:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32680

Once upon a time, when its power was still unrivaled, Kodak could have purchased Sandisk for $8/share. Say no more... Then there are countless other film and camera manufacturers that now only exist in Wikipedia, listed under bankrupt. Kodak is a great example. The classic B-school case used to be the Penn Central RR (used to be because it has been many years since I studied it, but recent history has tons of them). Organizations have a way of losing track of what their core business really is, taking their collective mind off the ball, and ending up losing it all. In the case of Penn Central, they thought they were in the railroad business when they should have realized they were in the transportation business. AAPL builds some great products but its success with iTunes has left the company confused about where its success lies. Recipe for disaster. While trying to corner the market on data, they may be letting the core business get away from them.