Let’s do a little case study. As of this writing, Apple’s stock sits at $ 461 a share, up about 18 percent from its late April low. You may recall how around that low we were fêted to one story after another about how doomity doomed Apple was because the masters of the universe that run Wall Street are never wrong about anything. Take, for example, Forbes contributor, Peter Cohan.

Please.

In the last two weeks of April, Cohan wrote four pieces about Apple: “7 Reasons Apple is More Doomed Than You Think” (which the Macalope took on at the time and was about as dumb as you might expect), “5 Keys To Apple’s Earnings Report” (a moderately straightforward “what to look for” piece), “Is Apple the Next Dell?” (seriously) and “Samsung Trouncing Apple”.

Because there are only so many hours in the day and stupidium is a seemingly inexhaustible resource, the Macalope never got to those last two pieces, so let’s take a quick look before we get to today’s real point.

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