I'm sure they'll survive, and yes they don't have a good record on social and cloud stuff from mobile me to ping. But jumped the shark doesn't mean they'll go out of business this year or this decade, it just means they're at the start of a long slow decline in quality and are out of ideas - that won't stop them making lots of money though, in fact whether they make money and survive is not really related to whether they have 'jumped the shark'.
So, whether they continue to break sales records and revenue and profit, or not, you are right either way? It's just a matter if you are really right, or tremendously right?
I wasn't aware this was a points scoring exercise, frankly, who cares if I'm right? I was just pointing out that the original post was not related to Apple's financial performance, but was criticising their lack of direction and quality lately - those have a long lead time in relation to profits - they can coast for a very long time now on the reputation they have built up, and the loyal customers they have (just as MS has for the last decade).
You took jumped the shark to mean peaked in profits, I suspect the OP didn't mean it that way as it's normally used to refer to a decline in quality, that's all we disagree on.
