It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

A business enterprise that does not care about her market share,will soon have zero market share.

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

If analyst expects that result of stock would exceed expectation, then can it be said that it would exceed the expectation.