Second, though, Apple may need to "re-reinvent" the phone. We've seen this plenty of times before, from the iPod to iMovie. The thing is, that's one of the company's great strengths: murdering its own darlings. So, the Macalope's not really concerned about this issue. That Ghose doesn't see this is probably indicative of Wall Street's understanding of the company.

Besides, the fact that the company is still selling iPhones in numbers so large that it starts to give you a Carl Sagan-like sense of the boundless infinity of the universe should be a tip that Apple's design is still OK.

(Final disclosure: the Macalope no longer holds any shares of Apple. He's holding a new iPad instead.)

(Also, big tip o' the antlers to who made the based on the Macalope's Mad Libs punditry in ! It's uncannily accurate!)

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