[citation][nom]gfair[/nom]What's wrong Dark Twizzle is that you don't know why the market acts the way it does. You see a phone that delivers no innovation. The market sees the latest, most advanced, most mature edition of a product line that has to date been the single most successful smartphone line since the genre first came about. It doesn't need to be cutting edge and buzzword-compliant, it needs to build on the quality and polish of its predecessors, which it does in every way. The market wants high quality, reliability, trust, and the richest ecosphere around. This is why people are buying the phone in droves. It doesn't have the latest technology; what it does have is the most trustworthy reputation for delivering a satisfying experience of any phone on the market.[/citation]
You're calling everyone else an idiot but where was Apple before the iPod?
What's an iPhone and an iPad?
They're iPods.
One day the iPod will be old news and your oh so diversified Apple will be out of cool things to sell because all they sell is iPods, songs and awkward computers. Their model of operation can only work well if they're number 1 on the market, and as history once showed us, once the novelty wears out it'll be many decades before a new iPod like gadget makes an appearance. 900$/share is not unlikely, but your statement that of "oh, of course, who wants to bet on a sure thing and dividends and profits?" is the epitome of naïve.