Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:42:37 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.30.0.110427 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:42:35 -0500 Subject: Re: Chicken Little From: George Kerby Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Chicken Little Thread-Index: Ac+Bx9ihN8miCnGOzUKgG3XnsSvTHA== References: <020620141212394785%michelle@michelle.org> <6ig2p9ht5l290li6p0qh98t8na4slhp01k@4ax.com> <050620142212226272%michelle@michelle.org> <060620141023432719%timstreater@greenbee.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 X-Trace: sv3-fbUbC2aGlgdYV+ctztHCWAGc5JHi6wAP2rWvGyyXYYFMqP8l9goq6h5a0cvJlt2v9ZNcliyFin4kliU!MVQfN6uLDws0v1xN/O/bLfaFblCB1906ckzdy0HEgZlFyFaAgDrVBIQB9zrqe2DNsofltTjum14A!2Q== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2724 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:36428 comp.sys.mac.system:60375 On 6/6/14 8:53 AM, in article bvdvevF8gltU3@mid.individual.net, "Jolly Roger" wrote: > On 2014-06-06, Tim Streater wrote: >> In article <050620142212226272%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner >> wrote: >> >>> In article <6ig2p9ht5l290li6p0qh98t8na4slhp01k@4ax.com>, Mxsmanic >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> Chicken Little is screaming that Apple is doomed because it didn't >>>>> introduce any new hardware at the WWDC keynote this morning. >>>> >>>> I'm sure geeks may feel that way, but Apple is in the mainstream now, and >>>> mainstream, ordinary users don't need to see new hardware every six months. >>>> Or >>>> even new software, for that matter. >>> >>> That screaming is from "Wall Street analysts" and tech writers for >>> magazines, newspapers, and web sites. Geeks and ordinary users don't >>> care all that much. >> >> So who gives a monkey's, then? > > Certainly not Apple customers, nor most of the true long-term investors > of AAPL. And those are the ones that matter most. Yep. Ten years ago this month I first invested in AAPL at a pre-split adjusted price of sixteen bucks and change a share - and held on. It is my retirement fund and the best thing I could have done to my investments.