Sorry but I see something completely different. I come into Apple when it was being run by a fizzy water merchant. The company was unfocused and losing marketshare despite having a superior vision. The company had competing divisions which used company politics to play executives off each other for their own advantage. I saw a company heading down the tubes. It got no better until Jobs came back. I don't care if Jobs is rude and abrupt - as I know he is. I don't care if he is eccentric - as I know he is. The company has focus, direction, and is moving forward. Stock that I paid between $13 and $22 for split and is now closing in on $100 a share. The product is reinvigorated and we have a code base on which to grow for quite some time. Just because you don't like his choices doesn't make him wrong or you right.
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