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"I think it's great they're doing this, and I hope it works out," he said. "It's just a missed opportunity. It's a couple years...they'll make a good car and be successful."

You know, if we were talking about ripped jeans, disco, or hot yoga, Musk might have a point. But saying that Apple missed an opportunity in electric cars is kind of like saying early humans missed an opportunity by not developing written language earlier, or not harnessing fire sooner, or agriculture. 

Couldn't we just as well say Musk missed an opportunity in not creating Tesla 20 years ago, or that he's missing an opportunity now by not having his solar battery backup thing in every house in America?

The DoJ seems to think Apple is refusing just on principle, like a doctor refusing to turn over a patient's files. Why should we think Apple has the technical means to hack into a locked phone without the owner's participation? The DoJ should just as well go after the service provider and the provider and manufacturer of the destroyed phone.

lkrupp said:

Unfortunately these results will now mean nothing in terms of AAPL. Analysts are worried about the upcoming next quarter in which they predict doom and gloom for iPhone sales. Supplier checks prove it don’t you know.

Every quarter that Apple beats estimates is a quarter closer to the inevitable quarter where they don't. Analysts are like the guy in the Pink Floyd song, lamenting that every day is "one day closer to death."