What you may think is a ground-hitter. Another case of a tech giant hitting their popularity on a few robust blockbuster products (namely the ipod). Is not what you think. Mac computer sales are doing better than ever, steamrolling, gaining a huge market share, MSFT trying to acquire YHOO to compete with GOOG? More like scared shitless of a tech company growing ever so popular with Gen x/y still trading @ about 9 times under earnings...b/c some big guys decided to sell off huge in January b/c they got emotional on AAPL making the moving averages look disgusting...the fact of the matter is...Apple is an amazing company and an even BETTER stock....but Steve Jobs needs to understand the stock game as welll as his computer game.....and understand that a 2 for 1 stock split would be excellent @ this point...understand this doesnt do much for investors b/c your market value or appl will remain the same...unless of course it jumps back up to 200/share after your 2 for 1....what do you think?

I think AAPL is still a good stock to own later on this year but not right now.even with the price now it's still 'expensive'This stock won't go higher until the recession fear eases.Mac market shares is still increasing I would go long for this stock for the next 5 years but I need to wait for a good entry point @ $120 or better.They should split for sure.

Splitting is insignificant to investments, as it doesn't change anything fundamentally. Google never split, and even with its high share price, it has performed well (although not recently). My point is, the only people that are going to get excited over a split are retail investors, which means they are in for the wrong reason. These same investors will be the first ones to jump ship when something insignificant goes wrong, pushing the share price lower. All splitting does is give an investor two or three shares for each of their original shares at half or one-third of the price. It is insignificant, do not bank on a split to carry a stock higher, rely on fundamentals. Steve Jobs does not need to do anything to the stock price, the smallest amount retail investors can invest is around $500 (for the most part), meaning that they would have no problem buying a few shares of AAPL, which is one of the reasons splits occur. The other is to increase liquidity, but AAPL is a highly traded company, with a huge number of shares outstanding, they have no need to worry about this, as liquidity problems do not exist. You say that it would be good if the stock jumped to $200 after the split, but theres no reason that it couldn't jump to $400 if it doesn't split, in fact, the odds of the stock moving to $400 are nearly identical to the odds of the post-split stock moving to $200. Money managers, who overwhelmingly control the markets are not going to invest in something just because it split, that is not a catalyst. Reality is that it is all about supply and demand, and if you double the shares, that has no impact on increasing demand. Splits are nothing you should waste time on, there are much better things companies can do with their time than filing all the documentation to split their stock. Let Steve Jobs do what he does best, the market will take care of the share price. Just my opinion, I hope it helps.Best of luck!Brendan Prewitt