"As an investor, therefore, are you buying a company with high growth and continued high profits, slowing growth and the same high profits, or the same growth and (due to cheaper products) lower profit? It really isn't clear. More cynically, this is a catch 22: high numbers mean saturation (bad), and low numbers mean slowing growth (bad).
Finally, Apple has got to the point where all news is bad news."
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2...-apple-paradox