RE:RE:RE:Why bash?Nah, mate. That is egregiously wrong and demonstrates a deep misunderstanding of Apple's history.
Apple was on fire when it did it's IPO in 1980. How strong was the offering?
1977 = $773K in revenues and breakeven
1978 = $7,883K in revenues and $0.03 EPS
1979 = $47,939K in revenues and $0.12 EPS
1980 = $117,902K in revenues and $0.24 EPS
Those are real EPS numbers, but BS "adjusted numbers". And that growth was organic, not via acquisition.
So YES, they BOOMED right away as a company. They then hit hard times because the Wintel duopoly kicked in and the fact that they were integrated up the stack hit them hard in a tornado market.
Jobs came back and the rest is history. And it is worth noting that much of their superior OS can trace its roots back to Next (Jobs' company post Apple)