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Reconstructing Apple Earnings, Including iPhone

Unfortunateley, there is a lot of BIG money out there that does not want to hear or accept this evidence. I mean hedgefunds! Hedge funds dont want to be found out selling off a mid term ATM machine like aapl for
their investors and having known it. Hence my suspicion of a cabal among certain analysts and funds. Even worse than lazy bottom of the s**t heap quality that you mentioned.
I find it hard to separate big funds connected to big banks connected to analysts. I think it's nieve to think that there's a kind of neutral journalist like tradition among them. Hedge funds need to liquidate NOW, and aapl still has juice to squeeze. That kind of Hedge power out there is the real GA(A)P in reality right now. Strong enough to make analysts say strange things.
Until we see another bootom take shape and wipe out a majority of hedgefunds -who have been steering aapl for over a year now - though i think there will continue to be a tragic disparity between aapl and Apple Inc.