Re: $10.60

It's not, I can get 1.50 on 25USD stocks all day. That said, stock value and divedends are not normally tightly coupled.

What this signals is that apple is moveing out of the rapid growth phase that started when Jobs reaquired the helm into a long-term sustaining phase. This is fairly normal when a company has saturated it's core-markets (music players, tablets, and premium smart phones in the case of APPL).