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JOHN MURRELL, from the Mercury News wraps ups Apple’s latest issues with investors:

After market close Tuesday, Apple proudly rolled out quarterly results that blew past analysts’ estimates and showed strength across the board. Its reward? Around midday, the stock was down a stomach-churning 19 percent before climbing halfway back in the afternoon. Investors brushed aside the good news, dug through the numbers until they found a flattening of iPod unit sales, and took the company’s usual conservative guidance as a sign that the nation’s broader economic woes are now weighing on Apple and everything is going to hell. Or something like that. “They’re just knocking the cover off the ball, but no one seems to care,” said Scott Rothbort, president of LakeView Asset Management. Attempts to put the results in perspective and interpret Apple’s strategy were drowned out by the stampede for the exits.

Cnet features this morning: Over and under in Apple’s earnings. The first quarter was a dandy all right. But is the Mac and iPod maker worried about consumer spending going into the rest of the year? Word war: Jobs vs. Gates+++ The Financial Times notes that shares in Apple fell more than 12 per cent in after-hours trading on Tuesday as jittery investors took fright at the … Apple plunges as outlook disappoints +++ ‘Why Does Apple Always Give Low Guidance? Is this a Rhetorical?’ asks Seeking Alpha, earlier this morning. According to the New York-based publication, Apple (AAPL) is notorious for one thing: giving lowered guidance to their profits and revenues. Why do they keep doing this every single quarter and end up …

At lest this is what Shelly Palmer, Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures and President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences thinks about Jobs’ keynote earlier this week at Macworld in San Francisco: Steve Jobs Ends the Applezoic Era (more…)