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What a complete and utter nonsense. Stocks go up, stocks go down and that's not always related to a companies performance.

AAPL almost always has a year end rally where stock price reaches new record only to lose significantly in Q2 (first quarter of the calendar year). December is a good month to sell AAPL. Stock price usually recovers by the end of the year.

This year obviously the major damage is that convicted felon in the White House and his crazy tariffs .... and obviously Tim has lost his ability to handle the orange clown.

Thankfully I did the obvious thing and emptied my US stock deposit (which I had from my days working for Apple) and sold stocks I got for around $1 a piece ... not exactly at the top but at $250. Because I no longer trust any US bank to handle money, you never know what crazy shit the convicted felon is doing next.

rob53 said:

Look at what's happening with its automobile market, it's tanking. Will Germany sue other car companies because they no longer can keep up with technology and the desires of consumers? 

Pretty simple. Competitive Chinese cars have a tariff (courtesy of the EU up to 30%), US cars don't (e.g. BMW X5/X7 sold in Germany are actually imported from the US as they are not produced in the EU) ...  US Cars from US companyes (except for Tesla which is nowadays made in Germany but still tanking) are exceedingly rare in Germany (Although I think Chrysler builds it's cars in Austria), or have a very bad image (high MPG, WAY too big, or specialities like the Corvette, which is considered a car for pimps)
Companies like Ford actually produce in Germany (cars designed for the EU market)

WTF?
Admittedly I rarely use a power button on my Mac, but this is just beyond stupid.

... and still no Mac OS client 

Let me guess ... they release AAA-Games months after the console/PC release and are wondering why people are not/no longer interested in buying the game for the iPhone!? Of course that makes no sense/even less if they charge a high list price for old games.
Also, based on my own experience ports usually are horrible, so I wouldn't touch them with a long pole.
Where are the AAA-Games that are Apple First?

I would also guess, that the whole Apple Game fetish will eventually die/disappear like the other 3(?) times they promised to push for games, that never shown any lifesigns.