>>it's especially important at a time when investors are panicked about the future of the stock.
Correction: some investors are panicked about the future of the stock. This is my favorite cartoon that describes how those investors operate: http://imgur.com/vuDioSI
I do appreciate that cartoon :), but I wouldn't be extremely confident about Apple stock in either direction, positive or negative. This is a period of great risk, uncertainty and — to be fair, opportunity — for the company. [0][1][2]
Correction: some investors are panicked about the future of the stock. This is my favorite cartoon that describes how those investors operate: http://imgur.com/vuDioSI