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		<title>TidBITS: Comments on Apple’s $13.1 Billion Profit for Q1 2013 Dismays Analysts</title>
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		<description>Citing constrained iMac availability and a shorter reporting quarter, Apple managed to come within one percent of last year’s profit-per-share mark, as well as bring in record revenues of more than $54 billion. For many analysts, this was not enough.</description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Clyde Kahrl]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:31:23 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Clyde Kahrl)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[This is scary.  It happened once before.  Microsoft could not get the new Windows out the door.  So in the Fall of '94 they announced that it would be called Win'95 so people would know that it was not vaporware. Apple had a backlog for Macs in Dec'94.  It was still a 3 mo. backlog in March and also in June.  Win'95 came out in September and Apple went into a death spiral.  Apple said I would get my iMac by Xmas'11 if I ordered by Dec. 12. I ordered on the 8th and got it January 20.  When Steve Jobs died, Guy Kawasaki made a point that no one else made: for all the talk about design, Steve Jobs got the product out the door.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from David Rabinowitz]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (David Rabinowitz)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I totally agree with you that the problem has been expectations. Wall Street and Investing is all about expectations and if they don't match up with reality then there's a problem.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Michael E. Cohen]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:22:28 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Michael E. Cohen)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[It's not really baffling. The stock was over-valued based on unrealistic expectations of growth on the part of traders and analysts, and now is becoming under-valued, based upon their equally unrealistic expectations of decline. I grew up in Las Vegas, and I see the same sort of over-reactive emotionality among the traders and analysts that I used to see among the hard-core gamblers around the craps and blackjack tables.<br><br>On the other hand, actual investors who are invested for the long-term and have a realistic view of Apple's future now have an opportunity to get some more shares at a reduced rate.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from seb]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:36:26 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (seb)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[It's baffling indeed. One only hopes that Tim will not succumb to Wall-street's dictate. I have a feeling it will all work out in the end as long as Apple remains Apple.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:02:28 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Perhaps they're selling short? ;-)]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Greg C]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:16:23 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Greg C)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[How analysts justify their existence is beyond me. They produce a lot of guesswork, mostly wrong, and take home massive salaries.]]></description>
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