The big problem for Apple shareholders is that while investors see Apple not moving much further they take their money from Apple and put it into companies like Amazon, Google and Priceline because they believe those companies will continue to climb a lot further. Amazon for the past five years has moved straight up without a hiccup even though everyone was saying Amazon was a bubble stock but it was Apple that became the bubble stock and collapsed in a heap while Amazon just kept flying higher. There's no fundamentals that Apple has that is inferior to Apple but now Google is sitting over $1000 a share while Apple is mired below $600.
All the talk about Apple stores being packed are doing very little for share gains. Same as having to listen to stories about Apple leading in this category and Apple leading in that category while the stock flops and all the big money gains goes to Amazon shareholders. Most of 2013 was a disaster for long-term Apple shareholders while the rest of the market went on to make huge gains. I just think the Apple bulls need to stop making like Apple's share price is going to soar to the heavens when it's not. I can't tell whether the China Mobile deal has taken place or not because if it has, the stock doesn't reflect it at all. If that had been Amazon, the stock would have gone up $100 in a day. With Apple, nada. Investors truly have the ultimate confidence in Amazon and Jeff Bezos, not Apple and Tim Cook.
Apple stock is still in a big hole after the collapse from $700 to $400 in 2012. I guess there's nothing stopping the big investor boys from standing up and leaving Apple shareholders in another sink-hole this year when they decide Apple stock has again reached its limit. They'll just run to Google and push it up to $1200 to make some easy money.