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Re: Jobs's absence, AAPL stock increased by 52% while he was gone from January 2009 to the start of July 2009.

Given that the iPhone 5 has been effectively complete for a little while, and given Apple's performance during 2009H1, I really don't see why there's a question about Apple's performance in 2011.

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the results from 1/2009-7/2009 were the product of work completed earlier

Fair point. My extremely scientific analysis of (a) setting a 6-month interval on GFinance, and (b) dragging that 6-month interval forward from January 2009 revealed no lower than a 10% return on AAPL at any point in time.

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