For the first time in a decade, Apple appears to have its manufacturing and inventory systems working smoothly.

In the meantime, Apple doesn't appear to have acknowledged the problem within its support system.

Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical or forbidden fruit.

So far, Apple appears to be going with the latter by investing heavily in web-based technologies.

Apple appears to have made some mostly-canny decisions on which features to take from each.

Apple had appeared to be regaining control of its destiny in recent months.

Apple appears to be building its own stable of graphics engineers by fiat.

Apple appears to have pulled off the most important product transition in its history without crashing.

Finally, Apple appears at last to be building a management team that can function without turmoil.

But the key point in their concerns, to my mind anyway, is that Apple appears to be rewriting the rules for copyright.