i S chadenfr eude is ever ywhere! I t is another bad day for AAPL stock due to a slowdown in the Apple pipeline of orders. AAPL bears are rejoicing -- they want to see the stock fall down through $500 because of the psychological significance. Even though I am an Apple hater, I will try to take a philosophical look at the anti-A pple syndrome. First of all, why should any of us hate Apple? Is it just envy? How can we not be grateful for the innovations that Apple has brought forth, with some even benefiting the consumers of rival products? And what about all the jobs? (Some are even in the USA.) One of the more emphatic critics of Apple is Karl Denninger, who recently said: There are plenty of people who hate the linkage with iTunes that comes with Apple products... Everyone on Wall Street wants to talk about ecosystem , but what they're really talking about is a walled garden -- and the wall has razor wire and broken bottles embedded in the top. It's a prison ,
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