their sales are just incredible,can't remember the exact number from an earlier thread but it was over 50% of the US market for the phones/tabs and stuff wasn't it

From 2008 to 2011, Apple's growth was utterly insane. A hardware giant delivering a steady 50% growth with spikes up to 100%? No wonder expectations went out of whack.

The problem now is that investors seem to think Apple is doomed to failure if they aren't launching a steady barrage of market-redefining products. The history of the Mac suggests otherwise. And strong iOS usage numbers and the iPhone's rock-steady ASP corroborate that Apple can hold its ground in mobile.

well you never know what they will come up with, but their lack of innovations for 3 or more years now is concerning to some.
Oh and I predict that the rumored iWatch will fail, if it gets announced.

Sometimes I think Apple deliberately starts rumours about things like a smartwatch to see how high they can make Samsung jump.

The current, more reliable, rumour is that there's a major Apple TV update coming. Something more interesting than a resolution bump.

51 million iphones? thats insane.... how much did they sell last holiday quarter?

47.8 million. A pretty modest 7% growth, though I think there may have been an extra week in last year's quarter, so that would account for another 7% or so.

Compare to Samsung, whose mobile division had flat revenues YoY, yet is estimated by Strategy Analytics to have unit growth from 63 to 86 million. If true, that implies a plunging ASP which would suggest Samsung is having a hard time unseating Apple from the high end and is slashing prices to compete with low-margin Chinese vendors.

Meanwhile Twitter stocks actually managed to go up during the last months without any real profits. Go figure market speculation.

I'm waiting for that information technology bubble to burst...