Apple's Q1 2013 tall-poppy-syndrome

How does the Establishment deal with a company that continually proves the accepted "rules" to be wrong? Simple. Create headlines that read, 'Apple revenue misses again', in spite of its best quarterly results ever.

Apple's 4th calendar quarter 2012 performance yielded phenomenal results, unequalled by any other company in the world, ever, exceeding Apple's guidance and any genuine expectations.

Analysts and Wall St are currently intent on driving Apple's stock price down for their own purposes, completely unrelated to Apple's performance.

iPhone 5 sales were nearly 30% higher than last year's record iPhone sales. Mac sales, like iPhone 5 sales, were only constrained by Apple's ability to produce product, and are still propping up the sad decline of rest of the PC industry.

Perhaps anticipating Apple would only just fall short of the most ludicrous "expectations", a chorus of, 'But next quarter, things will be really bad', broke out last week. Pathetic. And sadly, par for the course, for an industry that deludes itself, year after year, with the mantra, 'Sure this version of Windows is bad, but the the next one will be much better'.