I just don't see how you can think Apple has been doing a good job these last few years. The fact that their profits have gone up shows that they have good mid-level management who can squeeze pennies and dimes out of their manufacturing process, but I'm not seeing how Apple can continue this in the future with their current trajectory.
This is hilarious. You're discounting Apple's continued success, record breaking profits, growing market share with every quarter, introducing new products year after year. How many Apple Stores are there in the world? Hundreds.
Yet somehow you attribute all of this to Luck.. that Apple's forthcoming iCar will be a failure, when there is every indication it will be an epic success of historic proportions. Love that logic.