Apple Inc (AAPL)

[MorningLightMountain]

one big reason has been the rise of android.....but the analysts are typically shallow, and paint things in black and white, as if one platform being more popular means the demise of the other......there is plenty of room for both.....

PS: they were doing the same thing last year to the hard disk sector, saying solid-state and mobile would be the demise of HDD......of course, they are both doing well and growing, and serve different purposes.....now the genius analysts suddenly realize that HDD capacity needs will grow exponentially too, as SSD is too expensive for bulk storage in the rapidly expanding cloud, and big data.....(for example, check out the chart for WDC and new targets, now that they realize what has always been obvious, one size does not fit all)....

in short, the analyst "experts" are short-sighted!!!!